E31 - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation

• Price Stickiness, Inflation, and Output Dynamics: A Cross-Country Analysis

  Staff Working Paper 2000-12 Hashmat Khan

  The sticky-price model of aggregate fluctuations implies that countries with high trend inflation rates should exhibit less-persistent output fluctuations than countries with low trend inflation.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E32

• Non-Parametric and Neural Network Models of Inflation Changes

  Staff Working Paper 2000-7 Greg Tkacz

  Previous studies have shown that interest rate yield spreads contain useful information about future changes in inflation. However, such studies have for the most part focused on linear models, ignoring potential non-linearities between interest rates and inflation.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models, Inflation and prices JEL Code(s): C, C5, C51, E, E3, E31