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• Anchored Inflation Expectations Help Latin America Weather the Oil Shock
  • Published: May 26, 2026
  • Authors: Philip Barrett, Gonzalo Huertas
  • Summary: The region’s central banks have built significant credibility over two decades, anchoring price expectations and bolstering resilience against external shocks
• Rising Rates May Trigger Financial Instability, Complicating Fight Against Inflation
  • Published: February 13, 2025
  • Authors: Katharina Bergant, Mai Hakamada, Divya Kirti, Rui C. Mano
  • Summary: Banking systems are largely insulated from inflation, but vulnerabilities at some banks could lead to tradeoffs between containing inflation and protecting financial stability
• Global Inflationary Episode Offers Lessons for Monetary Policy
  • Published: October 16, 2024
  • Authors: Jorge Alvarez, Alberto Musso, Jean-Marc Natal, Sebastian Wende
  • Summary: The inflation surge followed a unique disruption to the global economy, but it still offers important lessons for central banks
• New Look at Global Banks Highlights Risks From Higher-for-Longer Interest Rates
  • Published: October 16, 2023
  • Authors: Charles Cohen, Srobona Mitra, Fabio Natalucci
  • Summary: Higher interest rates have exposed vulnerabilities in some banks, and many more would be weakened by a prolonged period of tight monetary policy
• Europe Must Succeed in Restoring Price Stability
  • Published: October 13, 2023
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer
  • Summary: Tighter monetary policy is starting to work. Alternatives would be more costly.
• How Managing Inflation Expectations Can Help Economies Achieve a Softer Landing
  • Published: October 4, 2023
  • Authors: Silvia Albrizio, John Bluedorn
  • Summary: Expectations increasingly drive inflation dynamics. Improvements in monetary policy frameworks can better inform people’s inflation expectations and thereby help reduce inflation at lower output cost.
• Inflation Remains Risk Confronting Financial Markets
  • Published: July 27, 2023
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Fabio Natalucci, Jason Wu
  • Summary: Central banks may keep interest rates higher for longer than currently priced; given investors’ benign inflation outlook and growing expectations for a soft landing, this could increase financial stability risks and weigh on growth
• Europe’s Inflation Outlook Depends on How Corporate Profits Absorb Wage Gains
  • Published: June 26, 2023
  • Authors: Niels-Jakob Hansen, Frederik Toscani, Jing Zhou
  • Summary: Higher prices so far mostly reflect increases in profits and import costs, but labor costs are picking up
• Central Banks Can Fend Off Financial Turmoil and Still Fight Inflation
  • Published: June 5, 2023
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
  • Summary: But there are trade-offs between price and financial stability during times of stress, especially when inflation is high
• Europe’s Knife-Edge Path Toward Beating Inflation Without a Recession
  • Published: April 28, 2023
  • Authors: Alfred Kammer
  • Summary: Success will require tighter macroeconomic policies tailored to changing financial conditions, strong financial supervision and regulation, and bold supply-side reforms
• Wage-Price Spiral Risks Still Contained, Latest Data Suggests
  • Published: February 24, 2023
  • Authors: Jorge Alvarez, Niels-Jakob Hansen
  • Summary: Wage gains remain broadly in line with past episodes, which didn’t tend to lead to sustained wage-price acceleration
• How Fiscal Restraint Can Help Fight Inflation
  • Published: November 21, 2022
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Vitor Gaspar
  • Summary: Fiscal policy can ease the task of monetary policy in reducing inflation while mitigating risks to financial stability
• Africa’s Inflation Among Region’s Most Urgent Challenges
  • Published: October 20, 2022
  • Authors: Marijn Bolhuis, Peter Kovacs
  • Summary: Tackling inflation while supporting growth and protecting the vulnerable warrants careful and vigilant monetary policy tightening
• Wage-Price Spiral Risks Appear Contained Despite High Inflation
  • Published: October 5, 2022
  • Authors: John Bluedorn
  • Summary: Analysis suggests a sustained acceleration of wages and prices is unlikely
• Africa Food Prices Are Soaring Amid High Import Reliance
  • Published: September 27, 2022
  • Authors: Cedric Okou, John Spray, D. Filiz Unsal
  • Summary: Factors include the region’s heavy reliance on food imports and changes in food consumption and incomes.
• How Food and Energy are Driving the Global Inflation Surge
  • Published: September 12, 2022
  • Authors: Philip Barrett
  • Summary: Rapid increases in food prices have been one of the main drivers of quickening inflation around the world, as our Chart of the Week shows.
• Shifting Global Winds Pose Challenges to Latin America
  • Published: July 27, 2022
  • Authors: Gustavo Adler, Ilan Goldfajn, Anna Ivanova
  • Summary: The region continued its strong recovery in early 2022, but decelerating economic activity and persistent inflation will test its resilience.
• Middle East and North Africa’s Commodity Importers Hit by Higher Prices
  • Published: May 24, 2022
  • Authors: Jihad Azour, Jeta Menkulasi, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu
  • Summary: Higher commodity prices, propelled upwards by war in Ukraine, will have a significant economic impact on the region.
• Inflation to be Elevated for Longer on War, Demand, Job Markets
  • Published: April 27, 2022
  • Authors: Jorge Alvarez, Philip Barrett
  • Summary: The war in Ukraine will quicken inflation, which we now expect to remain elevated for longer than previously forecast on higher commodity costs and broader price pressures.
• Financial Stability Risks Grow as War Complicates Push to Contain Inflation
  • Published: April 19, 2022
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian
  • Summary: While no systemic event has materialized, the balance of risks has tilted more firmly to the downside.
• Supply Disruptions Add to Inflation, Undermine Recovery in Europe
  • Published: February 17, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Oya Celasun, Alfred Kammer
  • Summary: With supply constraints likely to persist, the challenge for policymakers is to support recovery without allowing high inflation to become entrenched.
• Median Inflation Gauge Offers Better Read on Price Trends
  • Published: February 14, 2022
  • Authors: Laurence Ball, Daniel Leigh, Prachi Mishra, Antonio Spilimbergo
• Global Inflation Pressures Broadened on Food and Energy Price Gains
  • Published: January 28, 2022
  • Authors: Jorge Alvarez, Philip Barrett
• Higher Shipping Costs May Lift Asia’s Low Inflation
  • Published: December 22, 2021
  • Authors: Yan Carrière-Swallow, Pragyan Deb, Daniel Jiménez
• Addressing Inflation Pressures Amid an Enduring Pandemic
  • Published: December 3, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath
  • Summary: With inflationary pressures intensifying and Omicron generating new uncertainties, monetary policymakers are facing new and challenging tradeoffs.
• Latin America’s Inflation Challenge
  • Published: November 16, 2021
  • Authors: Maximiliano Appendino
• Inflation Scares in an Uncharted Recovery
  • Published: October 6, 2021
  • Authors: Francesca Caselli, Prachi Mishra
  • Summary: A key question is what combination of events could cause persistently faster price gains.
• Four Facts about Soaring Consumer Food Prices
  • Published: June 24, 2021
  • Authors: Christian Bogmans, Andrea Pescatori, Ervin Prifti
• Understanding the Rise in Long-Term Rates
  • Published: April 22, 2021
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Rohit Goel, Sheheryar Malik, Fabio Natalucci
  • Summary: The rise in long-term US interest rates has become a focus of global macro-financial concerns.
• Euro Area Inflation: Why Low For So Long?
  • Published: August 28, 2018
  • Authors: Yasser Abdih, Li Lin, Anne-Charlotte Paret Onorato
• Making Monetary Policy Decisions in the Dark
  • Published: August 12, 2015
  • Authors: Francesco Grigoli, Alexander Herman, Andrew Swiston, Gabriel Di Bella
• Darn Them Piggies! Pork Prices & the Inflation Outlook for China
  • Published: September 11, 2011
  • Authors: Nigel Chalk
• A Balanced Debate About Reforming Macroeconomics
  • Published: March 22, 2011
  • Authors: Joseph E. Stiglitz
• What Drives Inflation in Asia and Why it Matters
  • Published: November 1, 2010
  • Authors: Anoop Singh

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