experiment of the past decade, stemming from a belief of the government that higher interest rates cause higher inflation … eventually a negative coefficient on inflation in the policy rule. In such an environment, was the exchange rate still a random … walk? Was inflation anchored? Does the “standard model” suffice to explain the broad contours of macroeconomic outcomes in …

primary surpluses can have a positively valued currency and low inflation. It also provides an example with closed …

, inflation targeting remains robustly optimal in non-U.S. economies. The implementation of this non-cooperative policy results in … inflation targeting to take advantage of its effects on global product and asset markets, generating negative spillovers on the …

rational private sector expectations about housing prices and inflation, optimal monetary policy can be characterized by a … standard 'target criterion' that refers to inflation and the output gap, without making reference to housing prices. When the … increases (decreases), policy should adopt a stance that is projected to undershoot (overshoot) its normal targets for inflation …

inflation. Hence, the initial response of inflation to monetary shocks is not sufficient to discriminate across models and for …