inflation (with base drift in the price level) and price-level stability (without such base drift) are compared, and a suitable … loss function (corresponding to flexible inflation targeting) is discussed, including the index and level for the inflation … price stability. The benefits of credibility (private inflation expectations coinciding with the inflation target) are …

linking interest rates to forecasts of future inflation. Such rules have been found to give rise to aggregate fluctuations due … interest-rate rules whereby the central bank responds to a measure of past inflation. The consensus view that has emerged is … inflation are likely to ensure global stability provided that the coefficient on lagged interest rates is greater than unity …

uncoordinated rules. If governments' present bias is small, coordinated rules are tighter than uncoordinated rules: individual … countries do not internalize the redistributive effect of interest rates. However, if the bias is large, coordinated rules are …

government has time-inconsistent preferences with a present-bias towards public spending. The government chooses a fiscal rule to …

The paper provides an integrated analysis of globalization effects on the inflation-output tradeoff and monetary policy … flatten the Phillips curve, the tradeoff between inflation and activity. Second, the same globalization forces lead the … welfare-based monetary policy to be more aggressive with regard to inflation fluctuations, and at the same time, more benign …

rates, and the shift in the response of the term structure of interest rates to inflation and output. Although the theory …This paper shows that the theory of monetary policy rules is able to explain, predict, and help understand a variety of …

inflation and persistence in output. The key features of our model are those that prevent a sharp rise in marginal costs after …