A number of recent studies have suggested that activist stabilization policy rules responding to inflation and the … output gap can attain simultaneously a low and stable rate of inflation as well as a high degree of economic stability. The …

As inflation rates in the United States decline, analysts are asking if there are economic reasons to hold the rates at … levels above zero. Previous studies of whether inflation greases the wheels of the labor market ignore inflation's potential … allows the benefits of inflation (downward wage flexibility) to be separated from disruptive uncertainty about inflation rate …

interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …

interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …

disinflation under inflation targeting policies. The analysis is motivated by the disinflation performance of many inflation … episode price-setting firms' expect inflation to be highly persistent and opt for backward-looking indexation. As the central … bank acts to bring inflation under control, price-setting firms revise their estimates of the degree of persistence. Such …

the Bundesbank indeed took into consideration monetary aggregates but also real economic activity and inflation …

The purpose of the paper is to survey and discuss inflation targeting in the context of monetary policy rules. The … of inflation targeting, compares inflation targeting to the other monetary policy rules, and draws some conclusions for …

Since 1990, a number of countries have adopted inflation targeting as their declared monetary strategy. Interpretations … of the significance of this movement, however, have differed widely. To some, inflation targeting mandates the single …-minded, rule-like pursuit of price stability without regard for other policy objectives; to others, inflation targeting represents …