We examine the relative ability of simple inflation targeting (IT) and price level targeting (PLT) monetary policy … rules to minimize both inflation variability and business cycle fluctuations in Canada for shocks that have important … persistent cost-push pressures in the economy leading to a significant deterioration in the inflation - output gap trade …

In this paper, the authors propose a measure of underlying inflation for Canada obtained from estimating a monthly … distort the signal in many other measures of underlying inflation, and appears to capture price movements that are indicative … measures of underlying inflation monitored by the Bank of Canada. …

inflation such as the U.S. and Canada. For example, in Canada, a systematic review of the current inflation targeting framework … effects of inflation. This omission is likely to be important since the welfare costs of inflation depend not only on … assessing the redistributional effects of inflation in Canada that arise through the revaluation of nominal assets and …

of historical changes in the design of U.S. monetary policy and in the implied central-bank target for inflation …. Empirical results support a description of policy with an effective inflation target of roughly 7 percent in the 1970s. Moreover … Inflation while favouring a passive-policy description of monetary policy. FOMC transcripts provide a neglected interpretation …

the average anticipated path of policy responses to inflation is subject to a lower bound of unity. This result helps … explain how bond rates may exhibit stable responses to inflation, even in periods of passive policy. Another possible … explanation is time-varying term premiums with risk pricing that depends on inflation. The authors present a no-arbitrage model of …

While two strands of the literature suggest that PPI inflation, in addition to or instead of CPI inflation, should be a … temporary, the standard monetary policy rule that does not target the PPI inflation may have become increasingly problematic. …

. Finally, the effectiveness of monetary shocks depends on the steady-state level of inflation. The higher the average level of … inflation (money growth), the bigger the impact effect of a shock of a given size but the smaller its cumulative effect. These …