Research Discussion Paper – RDP 2006-10 The Performance of Trimmed Mean Measures of Underlying Inflation

Contents

• Introduction
• Background on Underlying Inflation
• Background on Trimmed Mean Measures of Underlying Inflation
• Data
• Empirical Analysis
• Assessment of Recent Underlying Inflation
• Conclusion
• References

We thank a number of colleagues including Christian Gillitzer, Jonathan Kearns and John Simon for helpful discussions. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Reserve Bank of Australia.