While two strands of the literature suggest that PPI inflation, in addition to or instead of CPI inflation, should be a … temporary, the standard monetary policy rule that does not target the PPI inflation may have become increasingly problematic. …

Inflation expectations are a key determinant of actual and future inflation and thus matter for the conduct of monetary … policy. We study how firms form their inflation expectations using quarterly firm-level data from the Bank of Canada …'s Business Outlook Survey, spanning the 2001 to 2015 period. The data are aggregated to construct an inflation expectations index …

Inflation targeting (IT) had originally been introduced as a device to bring inflation down and stabilize it at low … levels. Given the current environment of persistently weak inflation in many advanced economies, IT central banks must now … bring inflation up to target. In this paper, the author tests to what extent inflation expectations are anchored in such …

Central banks in most advanced economies have reacted similarly to the increase in inflation that started in 2021. They … initially looked through the rising inflation by leaving monetary policy relatively unchanged. Then, after inflation continued … aiming to anchor drifting inflation expectations. Why might central banks want to look through supply-driven inflation …

We examine the relative ability of simple inflation targeting (IT) and price level targeting (PLT) monetary policy … rules to minimize both inflation variability and business cycle fluctuations in Canada for shocks that have important … persistent cost-push pressures in the economy leading to a significant deterioration in the inflation - output gap trade …

switching from inflation targeting to price-level targeting under imperfect credibility. Following the policy change, private … agents assign a probability to the event that the policy-maker will revert to inflation-targeting next period. As this … probability decreases and imperfect credibility abates, inflation expectations in the economy become consistent with price …

This paper compares the performance of simple inflation targeting (IT) and price-level path targeting (PLPT) rules to … preferred to IT for delivering macroeconomic stability, as it delivers a reduction in inflation and nominal interest rate … relative merits of PLPT versus IT in Canada. -- Economic models ; Inflation: costs and benefits ; Inflation and prices …

by the announcement of inflation targeting in 1991 when estimating the effects of monetary policy. For instance, we find …

’ inflation expectations to their own lagged forecasts as well as proxies for the rational expectation forecasts. The model builds … in inflation expectations extensively documented in the literature. We estimate the model using data from two important … Survey of Consumer Expectations. We find that inflation expectations appear to correlate more strongly to measures of …