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 …

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 …

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 …

that the oil price passes through core inflation only via its effect on the whole economy. This pass-through is estimated …

strengthen the countercyclical behavior of markups and attenuate the response of inflation to fluctuations in output …

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 …