Measuring Trend Inflation and Inflation Persistence for India

2016 ◽  
pp. 335-356
Author(s):  
Vipul Bhatt ◽  
N. Kundan Kishor
2008 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 2101-2126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Cogley ◽  
Argia M Sbordone

Purely forward-looking versions of the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) generate too little inflation persistence. Some authors add ad hoc backward-looking terms to address this shortcoming. We hypothesize that inflation persistence results mainly from variation in the long-run trend component of inflation, which we attribute to shifts in monetary policy. We derive a version of the NKPC that incorporates a time-varying inflation trend and examine whether it explains the dynamics of inflation. When drift in trend inflation is taken into account, a purely forward-looking version of the model fits the data well, and there is no need for backward-looking components. (JEL E12, E31, E52)


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takushi Kurozumi ◽  
Willem Van Zandweghe

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1294-1308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Acocella ◽  
Giovanni Di Bartolomeo ◽  
Patrizio Tirelli

This paper offers a reinterpretation of the Fed's time-varying implicit inflation target, based on two considerations. The first is that the need to alleviate the burden of distortionary taxation may justify the choice of a positive inflation rate. The second is based on compelling evidence that the degree of price and wage indexation falls with trend inflation. In fact, we find that a proper characterization of the joint evolution of fiscal variables and nominal rigidities has a strong impact on the Ramsey optimal policies, implying optimal inflation dynamics that are consistent with the observed evolution of U.S. trend inflation. By contrast, tax policies have been too lax, especially at the time of the controversial Bush tax cuts.


2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1097-1109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Niemann ◽  
Paul Pichler ◽  
Gerhard Sorger

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