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In recent years a growing consensus has emerged for price stability as the overriding, long-run goal of monetary policy. However, despite this consensus, the following question still remains: how should monetary policy be conducted to achieve the price stability goal? This paper examines the...
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The paper extends previous analysis of closed-economy inflation targeting to a small open economy with forward … for monetary policy. The paper compares targeting of CPI and domestic inflation, strict and flexible inflation targeting …, and inflation-targeting reaction functions and the Talyor rule. The optimal monetary policy response to several different …
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aggregate or an index of inflation (either alone or in combination with some measure of the output gap). Because there is a …
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The recent debate over monetary policy strategies concludes that monetary targeting in practice lead to very similar patterns of central bank behaviour. This raises the question why central banks insist on the strategies they use. In this paper, we develop an answer from political economy. After...
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Inflation targeting is shown to imply inflation forecast targeting : the central bank's inflation forecast becomes an … intermediate target. Inflation forecast targeting simplifies both implementaing and monitoring of monetary policy. …
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. Starting from the issues and concepts familiar from research and policy experience in the 1990s of inflation targeting -as …
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Can higher inflation diminish the government debt and contribute to financing the budget deficit? And how do these …
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By driving a wedge between the marginal returns to real and financial capital, inflation distorts production. The … approximately proportional to the square of the original inflation distorsion. …
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paper, instead, shows that it is possible to analyze equilibrium inflation determination without any reference to either …
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