In the late 1970s countries in Latin America's Southern Cone attempted to lower domestic inflation rates through the … appreciation may result.While unanticipated, permanent inflation changes are neutral in the paper,anticipated inflation is neutral …

Estimates of the cost of disinflation made before the recent reduction in the inflation rate varied widely. Estimates … reduction in the inflation rate. At one extreme it was argued thata resolute and credible monetary policy could reduce inflation …

followed the German hyper-inflation. Significant real dislocations arose after the monetary reform; and these can be attributed … to a government policy which subsidized heavy industry through the inflation tax proceeds. The "credibility problem …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In a previous attempt to articulate the costs of inflation (Leigh-Pemberton (1992)), the Bank of England outlined the … following costs of a fully-anticipated inflation: - the cost of economising on real money balances -- so-called shoe … these costs when moving from 2% inflation to price stability in the U.S. Feldstein concluded that the permanent welfare …

This paper shows that it is possible to analyze equilibrium inflation determination without any reference to either … become negligible. Inflation in the cashless limit is shown to be a function of the gap between the natural rate' of interest …-rate rule indicating the tightness of monetary policy. Inflation can be completely stabilized, in principle, by adjusting the …

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 …

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 …