inflation and activity. If policy makers are guided by the welfare criterion of the representative household, globalization … forces also lead monetary policy to be more aggressive with regard to inflation fluctuations but, at the same time, more …

Inflation targeting is shown to imply inflation forecast targeting: the central bank's inflation forecast becomes an … explicit intermediate target. Inflation forecast targeting simplifies both implementation and monitoring of monetary policy …. The weight on output stabilization determines how quickly the inflation forecast is adjusted towards the inflation target …

current and future inflation innovations to revalue government debt, reducing reliance on distorting taxes; (2) the role of … inflation in optimal fiscal financing increases with the average maturity of government debt; (3) as average maturity rises, it … is optimal to tradeoff inflation for output stabilization; (4) inflation is relatively more important as a fiscal shock …

calculating the gain from price stability, the paper emphasizes the distortions caused by the interaction of inflation and capital … income taxes. Because inflation exacerbates the tax distortions that would exist even with price stability, the annual … deadweight loss of a two percent inflation rate is a surprisingly large one percent of GDP. Since the real gain from shifting to …

As central bankers intensify their focus on inflation as the primary goal of monetary policy, it becomes increasingly … important to have accurate and reliable measures of changes in the aggregate price level. Measuring inflation is surprisingly … transitory noise and bias. Noise causes short-run changes in measured inflation to inaccurately reflect movements in long …

This paper presents a model of monetary policy in which a rise in inflation raises uncertainty about future inflation …. When inflation is low, there is a consensus that the monetary authority will try to keep it low. When inflation is high …

This paper examines the relationship between macroeconomic objectives of controlling inflation and trade … between the two, as a crawling peg exchange-rate policy can prevent inflation from affecting the performance of the foreign … sector. In practice, trade regime objectives have been linked with inflation-reducing objectives, often to the detriment of …

Previous analysis of the implementation of inflation targeting is extended to monetary policy responses to different … stabilization or smoothing all call for a more gradual adjustment of the conditional inflation forecast toward the inflation target …. The conditional inflation forecast is the natural intermediate target during inflation targeting …

This paper presents a model of dynamically consistent monetary policy that explains changes in inflation over time. In … the model -- as in the postwar United States -- adverse supply shocks trigger persistent increases in inflation, and …

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 …