“…The effect is strongest when a study focuses on OECD countries, the period 1970-1979, considers the labour market, and when the relation is estimated using a bivariate However, this evidence has been criticized by various authors, claiming that the results are sensitive with 8 respect to the measure of CBI used (see, for instance, Forder, 1996), the specification of the model (see, for instance, Posen, 1995;Campillo and Miron, 1997) or the inclusion of high-inflation observations (see, for instance, de Haan and Kooi, 2000). Klomp and de Haan (2010b) report that CBI only has a significant effect on inflation in a minority of the countries in their sample. !…”