Building on the results in Nalewaik (FEDS 2015-93), this work models wage growth and core PCE price inflation as regime … price inflation that becomes much larger after labor markets tighten beyond a certain point. The results are informative for … assessing the likelihood and risks of meeting certain inflation targets on a sustained basis …

The diminished sensitivity of inflation to changes in resource utilization that has been observed in many advanced … examine this "globalization" hypothesis using both aggregate U.S. data on measures of inflation and economic slack and a rich … the overall decline in responsiveness of aggregate inflation to fluctuations in economic activity. This flattening of the …

1980s not only conquered the Great Inflation, but also buried the Phillips curve itself. This paper provides an alternative … power of trade unions. We show that a nearly 90 percent reduction in inflation volatility is possible even without any …

curves display similar patterns of instability and to examine lead-lag patterns in how individual inflation series change. We …

We consider three ways that a monetary policy framework may employ a range for inflation outcomes: (1) ranges that … acknowledge uncertainty about inflation outcomes (uncertainty ranges), (2) ranges that define the scope for intentional deviations … of inflation from its target (operational ranges), and (3) ranges over which monetary policy will not react to inflation …

Using daily inflation data from the Billion Prices Project [Cavallo and Rigobon (2016)], we show how temporal … private agents and the central bank (the “Fed information effect”). We find that the adverse response of daily inflation to … and an unobserved components model of inflation dynamics. To reconcile how one can obtain a sizable adverse response with …

Recently, the experience of the 1960s—when the U.S. inflation rate rose rapidly and persistently over a comparatively … short period—has been invoked as a cautionary tale for the present. An analysis of this period indicates that the inflation …

We consider what, if any, relationship there is between monetary aggregates and inflation, and whether there is any … paribus unitary relationship between inflation and money growth. Simulations of a New Keynesian model suggest that we should … allowance needed for the phase shift in the relationship between monetary growth rates and inflation. While financial innovation …

Since Kydland and Prescott (1977) and Barro and Gordon (1983), most studies of the problem of the inflation bias …-quadratic approach to the problem in favor of a projection method approach. We investigate the size of the inflation bias that arises in … a microfounded nonlinear environment with Calvo price setting. The inflation bias is found to lie between 1% and 6% for …

This paper studies the welfare consequences of exogenous variations in trend inflation in a New Keynesian economy …. Consumption and leisure respond asymmetrically to a rise and a decline in trend inflation. As a result, an increase in the … variance of shocks to the trend inflation process decreases welfare not only by increasing the volatilities of consumption and …