The positive relationship between inflation and inflation uncertainty is well supported by empirical evidence in the literature. However, this does not answer the question of whether the inflation causes the inflation uncertainty and vice versa or both in the Granger sense. The empirical...

Over the years from 1844 to 2013, the United Kingdom had several distinct monetary policy regimes. This paper examines the relationship between the Bank of England policy rate and UK long‐term rates in each regime. Our starting point is R. G. Hawtrey's A century of Bank Rate, which focused...