Based on panel data of 58 countries, of which 22 Inflation Targeters and 36 non Inflation Targeters, over the period … 1980-2003, this paper highlights the effect of Inflation Targeting – IT- on Fiscal Discipline –FD-. We make four …

We use laboratory experiments with human subjects to test the relevance of di-fferent inflation targeting regimes. In … particular and within the standard New Keynesian model, we evaluate to what extent communication of the inflation target is … relevant to the success of inflation targeting. We -find that if the central bank only cares about inflation stabilization …

central banks' monetary policy must be credible if the authorities want to curb inflation. A second view is that central banks … set their monetary policy by using all the information relevant for inflation and output projections. In Europe, a … controversy has emerged about the role of monetary aggregates as useful indicators of future inflation and output. On one hand …

; above it, the economy eventually converges towards a Pareto-optimal rest-point while inflation raises in an unbounded …

fuels a financial inflation driven by "rational exuberance", whose burst leads to a global crash in the next period, 3) else … a significant inflation of commodity prices accompanies the functioning of markets. In particular, neither Friedman …