In recent years, a number of central banks have chosen to orient their monetary policy toward the achievement of numerical inflation targets. This study examines the experience of the first three countries to adopt an inflation-targeting strategy - New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It...

This paper is the introductory chapter in my book, Monetary Policy Strategy, forthcoming from MIT Press. I thank my editor Elizabeth Murry for her extremely helpful comments. Any views expressed in this paper are those of the author only and not those of Columbia University or the National...

"This paper discusses recent economic research that demonstrates that the objectives of price stability and stabilizing economic activity are often likely to be mutually reinforcing. Thus, the answer to the title of this paper--"Does stabilizing inflation contribute to stabilizing economic...