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 …

price setters to infer the central bank's future policy intentions, thereby making current inflation more responsive to … policy actions. This induces the central bank to pay more attention to inflation rather than output gap stabilization. Then …, transparency may be disadvantageous. It may actually be a policy-distorting straitjacket if the central bank enjoys low-inflation …