This is the fifth of a series of papers that are being written as part of a larger project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit to which economists have access for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In...

This is the fourth chapter of a forthcoming monograph entitled ""On Implementing Full-Fledged Inflation- Targeting Regimes: Saying What You Do and Doing What You Say."" It examines a number of issues related to transparency and accountability in an inflation-targeting regime. It first looks at...

This is the third chapter of a forthcoming monograph entitled ""On Implementing Full-Fledged Inflation-Targeting Regimes: Saying What You Do and Doing What You Say."" It examines a number of elements in the design of an inflation-targeting framework. These include the definition of the target...