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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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Previous analysis of the implementation of inflation targeting is extended to monetary policy responses to different … stabilization or smoothing all call for a more gradual adjustment of the conditional inflation forecast toward the inflation target …. The conditional inflation forecast is the natural intermediate target during inflation targeting. …
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The paper discusses the choice between inflation targeting and monetary targeting as a strategy for the Eurosystem, the …
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Using a small empirical model of inflation, output, and money estimated on U.S. data, we compare the relative … performance of monetary targeting and inflation targeting. The results show that monetary targeting would be quite inefficient …, with both higher inflation and output variability. This is true even with a deterministic money demand formulation. In this …
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Price level targeting (without base drift) and inflation targeting (with base drift) are compared under commitment and …
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Eurosystem. The P* model implies that inflation is determined by the level of and changes in the "real money gap" (the deviation … inficator for future inflation. Nevertheless, the P* model does not seem to provide any rationale for either a Bundesbank …
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This paper discusses how price stability can be defined and how price stability can be maintained in practive. Some lessons for the Eurosystem are also considered.
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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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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 purpose of the paper is to survey and discuss inflation targeting in the context of monetary policy rules. The … paper provides a general discussion of monetary policy rules, attempts to clarify the essential characteristics of inflation … targeting, compares inflation targeting to other monetary policy rules,and draws some conclusions for the monetary policy of the …
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