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Inflation-forecast targeting is state of the art for monetary policy. This book explores first principles, including …Part I. The frontiers of monetary policymaking. 1. An overview of inflation-forecast targeting -- Part II. Principles … and practices of inflation-forecast targeting. 2. First principles -- 3. Managing expectations -- 4. Nuts and bolts of a …
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The paper presents a DGE model designed as a core projection tool to support monetary policy in inflation-targeting (IT …
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adjustment rule, under alternative inflation targets, in terms of output losses in a macroeconomic model, using European Union … credibility, and that a positive inflation target, as opposed to zero inflation, leads to higher and less volatile output. These … countries supports country-specific flexible inflation targeting …
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This paper presents a model for Inflation Targeting under imperfect policy credibility. It modifies the conventional … time; non-linearities in the inflation equation and in the credibility generating process; and an explicit loss function …. The model highlights problems associated with the practice of setting a series of rigid near-term inflation targets. Also …
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This paper highlights that central banks from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru (the LA5 countries) reaped the benefits of what they sowed in successfully weathering the global crisis. The adoption of far-reaching institutional, policy, and operational reforms during the last two decades...
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Inflation distorts prices, erodes savings, discourages investment,stimulates capital flight, inhibits growth, and makes …-old problem of controlling inflation throughmonetary policy known as ""inflation targeting."" This pamphlet explainsthe …
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This paper examines some of the key issues in the conduct of Philippine monetary policy since 1984, including the various shocks to the economy and the monetary authorities’ choice of intermediate policy targets and instruments used to achieve those targets. Against this background, estimates...
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This paper estimates a model of financial markets in Colombia to examine: 1) the authorities’ control over domestic interest rates and the money stock; and 2) the effects of the crawling peg exchange rate policy on exchange rate expectations and domestic interest rates. The authorities...
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The paper considers the merits of rules and discretion for monetary policy when the structure of the macroeconomic model and the probability distributions of disturbances are not well defined. It is argued that when it is costly to delay policy reactions to seldom-experienced shocks until formal...
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''s experience with ''inflation targeting lite'' as described in Stone (2003). It finds that this monetary policy regime has been … associated with a general reduction in inflation, principally through a reduction in inflation expectations. The credibility the … Bank of Mauritius has established with its ''inflation targeting lite'' regime has allowed it to shift from an emphasis on …
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