of historical changes in the design of U.S. monetary policy and in the implied central-bank target for inflation …. Empirical results support a description of policy with an effective inflation target of roughly 7 percent in the 1970s. Moreover … Inflation while favouring a passive-policy description of monetary policy. FOMC transcripts provide a neglected interpretation …

changing nature of inflation dynamics. We estimate a series of VAR models for a set of six Asian emerging market economies, in … parts of inflation and output dynamics. The global shocks are procyclical with respect to the domestic components of …

. “Rents” in the CPI have jumped up by as much as 35% in certain quarters, hugely overestimating the true inflation. This … vitiates any use of the core CPI for monetary policy including inflation targeting. This will-o’-wisp that the RBI chased, had …

We provide an updated evaluation of the value of various measures of core inflation that could be used in the conduct … of monetary policy. We find that the Bank of Canada's current preferred measures of core inflation-CPI-trim, CPI … biased, less volatile and much more persistent relative to alternative core measures and CPI inflation. They are also still …

of historical changes in the design of U.S. monetary policy and in the implied central-bank target for inflation …. Empirical results support a description of policy with an effective inflation target of roughly 7 percent in the 1970s. Moreover … Inflation while favouring a passive-policy description of monetary policy. FOMC transcripts provide a neglected interpretation …

regime during a deceleration in economic activity and with headline and core inflation remaining well below the FOMC's 2 … percent inflation target. Moreover, both short- and long-term inflation expectations were drifting lower. These developments …

the average anticipated path of policy responses to inflation is subject to a lower bound of unity. This result helps … explain how bond rates may exhibit stable responses to inflation, even in periods of passive policy. Another possible … explanation is time-varying term premiums with risk pricing that depends on inflation. The authors present a no-arbitrage model of …

In Canada, targeting the inflation rate was intended as a temporary measure on a journey to price-level stability, but … account, changing beliefs about the stability or otherwise of ongoing inflation, the capacity of a flexible exchange rate to … inflation targeting arrived on the scene only after the Canadian regime was well established. …

This study investigates inflation persistence in annual CPI inflation collected between 1994 and 2014 for 46 African … countries. We group these countries into panels according to whether they are inflation targeters or not and conduct estimations … for pre and post inflation targeting periods. Interestingly enough, we find that inflation persistence was much higher for …