Editor's perspectives – June 2015

Cover vol. 12, no.3, June 2015

AIDSFree Prevention Update: June 2015

President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Cooperative Agreement Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree), number AID-OAA-A-1400046. AIDSFree is implemented by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. with partners Abt Associates Inc., Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, EnC...

In the June 2015 issue

In this issue (June 2015)

We are pleased to announce that the Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry has now been accepted for registration in PsycINFO, a database with 2.7 million records that provides systematic coverage of the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. This issue starts with a Commentary about the Special Article by Paul Bebbington in the last issue [1] which discussed a new model for conceptua...

Core Inflation and Trend Inflation June 2015

An important input to monetary policymaking is estimating the current level of inflation. This paper examines empirically whether the measurement of trend inflation can be improved by using disaggregated data on sectoral inflation to construct indexes akin to core inflation but with a time-varying distributed lags of weights, where the sectoral weight depends on the timevarying volatility and p...