. Previous literature has highlighted the role of an economy's "structure" - such as its inflation volatility, inflation rate …, forecasts predicting how a given exchange rate movement will impact inflation at a specific point in time should take into …

The paper presents the welfare cost of inflation in a banking time economy that models exchange credit through a bank … welfare cost of a 10% inflation rate instead of zero, for comparison to other estimates, as well as the cost of a 2% inflation … rate instead of a zero inflation rate. The zero rate is specified as the US inflation rate target in the 1978 Employment …

Empirical evidence suggests that considerable differentials in inflation rates exist across households. This paper … investigates how central banks should react to household inflation heterogeneity in a tractable New Keynesian model. We include two … households that differ in their consumer price inflation rates after adverse shocks. The central bank reacts to either an average …

generate substantial inflation. Such a shock induces an equilibrium decline in the relative price of services. If price … increase in goods prices, resulting in, on net, little inflation. If prices in the services sector are downwardly rigid …, however, this takes place mostly through an increase in goods prices, resulting in inflation. To illustrate the relevance of …

frequency vector autoregression (VAR). It shows that potential causalities for inflation, relative price variability, relative …

In order to explain the joint fluctuations of output, inflation and the labor market, this paper first develops a … helps to explain the sluggishness of inflation and the persistence of output after a monetary policy shock. The ability of … the model to account for the joint dynamics of output and inflation rely on its ability to explain the dynamics in the …

To help policymakers form a judgment on inflation risks and the required monetary policy stance the OECD has developed … Outlook to explain recent developments in core inflation, excluding food and energy, based on developments in measures of … economic slack (the output gap), spill-over effects from energy prices onto core inflation and lagged responses to past …

The speed of inflation adjustment to aggregate technology shocks is substantially larger than to monetary policy shocks …