In this paper three possible reasons are examined for a sluggish inflation response to a hard currency peg. Models of … credibility and the speed of private sector learning, which are shown to have a major impact on the speed of inflation adjustment …. But even if individual agents believe the government will not devalue, it is shown that inflation inertia can still arise …

This paper explains why sovereign issuers of reserve currencies do not use unexpected inflation to repudiate their … excessive money creation. It is shown that even without policy precommitment or aversion to inflation, the availability of … alternative currencies can support an equilibrium with a finite, time consistent inflation rate …

This paper explores inflation determinants within the EU and implications for new members'' euro adoption plans. Factor … analysis partitions observed inflation in EU25 countries into common-origin and country-specific (idiosyncratic) components …. Cross-country differences in common-origin inflation within the EU are found to depend on gaps in the initial price level …

between monetary autonomy and inflation dynamics in a panel of Caribbean countries over the period 1980-2017. The empirical … results show that monetary independence is a significant factor in determining inflation, even after controlling for … monetary policy for domestic purposes independent of external monetary influences, leads to lower consumer price inflation …

-fledged inflation targeting regimes in place or have recently adopted them, using an array of methodologies commonly used in the … that the interest rate gap can be a good predictor of future inflation dynamics and economic growth. In addition, looking …

show that for a group of Latin American inflation targeters the prescriptions from typical monetary policy rules are … inflation from target, suggesting this information is not accounted for in real-time policy decisions …

with different degrees of liability dollarization. The paper answers the question of how efficient it is to use inflation …

, and wages following the lira’s exit from the ERM in the fall of 1992. The model tracks reasonably well the inflation … overprediction of price and wage inflation …