Abstract
This paper focuses on the role of the quantity theory in improving inflation forecasts. We find that the cointegration-based quantity theory does not hold for the period after 1995 for the U.S. data. However, that period is well explained by an adaptive quantity theory based on a functional-coefficient cointegration that adapts to the unemployment rate. The forecasting exercises show that the adaptive quantity theory has superior predictive power for targeting future inflation.
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