disinflation under inflation targeting policies. The analysis is motivated by the disinflation performance of many inflation … episode price-setting firms' expect inflation to be highly persistent and opt for backward-looking indexation. As the central … bank acts to bring inflation under control, price-setting firms revise their estimates of the degree of persistence. Such …

inflation and its target, and the gap between output and its potential. Under the opportunistic approach to disinflation a … central bank controls inflation aggressively when inflation is far from its target, but concentrates more on output … stabilization when inflation is close to its target, allowing supply shocks and unforeseen fluctuations in aggregate demand to move …

Since 1990, a number of countries have adopted inflation targeting as their declared monetary strategy. Interpretations … of the significance of this movement, however, have differed widely. To some, inflation targeting mandates the single …-minded, rule-like pursuit of price stability without regard for other policy objectives; to others, inflation targeting represents …

Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An … important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This paper studies the optimal monetary … policy in the presence of uncertainty about the natural unemployment rate, the short-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff and …

disinflation under inflation targeting policies. The analysis is motivated by the disinflation performance of many inflation … episode price-setting firms’ expect inflation to be highly persistent and opt for backward-looking indexation. As the central … bank acts to bring inflation under control, price-setting firms revise their estimates of the degree of persistence. Such …

Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An … important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This paper studies the optimal monetary … policy in the presence of uncertainty about the natural unemployment rate, the short-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff and …

inflation and its target, and the gap between output and its potential. Under “the opportunistic approach to disinflation” a … central bank controls inflation aggressively when inflation is far from its target, but concentrates more on output … stabilization when inflation is close to its target, allowing supply shocks and unforeseen fluctuations in aggregate demand to move …

Using a set of regional inflation rates we examine the dynamics of inflation dispersion within the U.S.A., Japan and … across U.S. and Canadian regions. We find that inflation rate dispersion is significant throughout the sample period in all … reversion (?- convergence) in inflation rates in all considered samples. The evidence on ?-convergence is mixed, however …

Using a unique data set of regional inflation rates we are examining the extent and dynamics of inflation dispersion in … mean reversion (?-convergence) in inflation rates. However, half-lives to convergence are considerable and seem to have … the further convergence has proceeded. An examination of the dynamics of overall inflation dispersion (?-convergence …

Using the Johansen test for cointegration, we examine to which extent inflation rates in the Euro area have converged … in cointegration analyses we pay special attention to the appropriate identification of non-stationary inflation rates by …