We test the menu cost model of Ball and Mankiw (1994, 1995) on data from the inflation and deflation periods in Japan … during both inflation and deflation, is strongly supported. The data are less clear on, but does not reject, the hypothesis … that the parameter on the standard deviation changes sign between inflation and deflation periods. …

We test the menu cost model of Ball and Mankiw (1994, 1995) on data from the inflation and deflation periods in Japan … during both inflation and deflation, is strongly supported. The data are less clear on, but does not reject, the hypothesis … that the parameter on the standard deviation changes sign between inflation and deflation periods. …

The main focus of the present paper is to analyze the impacts of financial policy on inflation rates. The analysis … utilized to reflect the relations between financial policy and inflation. Thus, more lights are shed on the fact that the first … components represented in governmental expenditure and taxation and the dependant variable inflation. The results show that there …

Many central banks in emerging and advanced economies have adopted an inflation-forecast targeting (IFT) approach to … monetary policy, in order to successfully establish a stable, low-inflation environment. To support policy making, each has …-fledged inflation targeting …

This paper introduces a global database that contains inflation series: (i) for a wide range of inflation measures … (headline, food, energy, and core consumer price inflation; producer price inflation; and gross domestic product deflator … available sources, our database constitutes a comprehensive, single source for inflation series. We illustrate the potential use …

consecutive month, intensifying the ongoing debate about whether high inflation will prove temporary or more lasting. This paper … seeks to inform this debate by evaluating the current conditions contributing to the recent uptick in inflation and … comparing them to conditions that caused similar episodes of high inflation in the past. The paper concludes that inflationary …

This paper investigates the time-varying effects of monetary policy on aggregate, sectoral, and disaggregate inflation … monetary policy in controlling aggregate inflation has improved over time. This improvement in the policy's effectiveness can … be attributed to better transmission through credit and asset price channels. In investigating disaggregate inflation, we …

This study sought to identify the traditional and institutional inflation variables responsible for inflation … year. The study therefore concluded that inflation in Nigeria, during the studied period, was driven by the pass-through of … import prices to domestic prices via markup pricing by firms. This was aided by domestic inflation persistence. It is …