nominal policy interest rate and the CPI inflation rate decline during housing booms and rise as house prices fall. These … demonstrate that stronger policy responses to inflation amplify housing-market boom-bust cycles. Also, higher loan-to-value ratios … stability ; Inflation targets …

this phenomenon, which has been observed for several other countries, may be due to a change in the behaviour of inflation …. Specifically, moving from a high to a low-inflation environment has reduced the expected persistence of cost changes and, by … policy has responded more aggressively to inflation deviations over the low pass-through period relative to the high pass …

rate as the real policy rate consistent with output at its potential level and inflation equal to target after the effects … rate below neutral will be required to maintain inflation sustainably at target. …

The authors investigate the implications of house-price bubbles for the optimal inflation-target horizon using a …, given the distribution of shocks and inflation persistence over the past 25 years, the optimal target horizon for Canada … inception of the inflation-targeting regime. The authors' results also suggest that it may be appropriate to take a longer view …