Titolo Euro Area Inflation and ECB Policy in a Global Environment Periodico Politica economica Anno: 2016 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 539 - Pagina finale: 554
This paper contributes to the literature investigating the role of global factors in determining Euro area inflation, using a wide list of potential candidates to measure global factors. We show that roughly 50 percent of inflation is explained by global factors; and that the ECB has an impact on the domestic part of inflation. This calls for adjusting the definition of the ECB target to the domestic-driven indicator of inflation which we develop.