We study how changes in the value of the steady-state real interest rate affect the optimal inflation target, both in …-for-one: increases in the optimal inflation rate are generally lower than declines in the steady-state real interest rate. Our approach … allows us not only to assess the uncertainty surrounding the optimal inflation target, but also to determine the latter while …

target inflation. We find that when the government cannot commit to its policies, the greater transparency of the exchange …

reduced to a tractable canonical system in domestic inflation and the output gap. We employ this framework to analyze the … macroeconomic implications of three alternative monetary policy regimes for the small open economy: domestic inflation targeting … exchange rate volatility that they entail. We also discuss a special case for which domestic inflation targeting constitutes …

determine inflation in this regime, so I base the analysis on the fiscal theory of the price level. I find that monetary policy … can peg the nominal rate, and determine expected inflation. With sticky prices, monetary policy can also affect real … interest rates and output, though higher interest rates raise output and then inflation. The conventional sign requires a …

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 …

This paper investigates the hypothesis that surprise changes in the money supply and anticipated inflation (the Mundell … surprises and expected real interest or an inverse relationship between anticipated inflation and expected real interest. These …

finding is that the behavior of the domestic variables (for instance, output, inflation) is quite sensitive to the monetary … less so. Among different policy rules, domestic inflation targeting achieves the best stabilization outcome of aggregate … of consumer price inflation performs similarly well …