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Inflation targeting in Brazil
Arestis, Philip; de Paula, Luiz Fernando Rodrigues; … - 2008
the case of Brazil. The IT monetary policy regime has been adopted by a significant number of countries. While the focus … of this paper is on Brazil, which began inflation targeting in 1999, we also examine the experience of other countries … compare the experience of Brazil with that of non-IT countries, and ask the question of whether adopting IT makes a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276235
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The impact of inflation targeting on unemployment in developing and emerging economies
Divino, Jose Angelo - 2009
Several countries around the world have adopted the inflation targeting regime for monetary policy. Despite the growing literature on the issue, it is not clear whether developing and emerging countries can improve their economic performance by adopting inflation targeting. This working paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293308
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Inflation targeting and real exchange rates in emerging markets
Aizenman, Joshua; Hutchison, Michael; Noy, Ilan - 2008
We examine the inflation targeting (IT) experiences of emerging market economies, focusing especially on the roles of the real exchange rate and the distinction between commodity and non-commodity exporting nations. In the context of a simple empirical model, estimated with panel data for 17...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285328
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Inflation targeting and real exchange rates in emerging markets
Aizenman, Joshua; Hutchison, Michael; Noy, Ilan - 2008
We examine the inflation targeting (IT) experiences of emerging market economies, focusing especially on the roles of the real exchange rate and the distinction between commodity and non-commodity exporting nations. In the context of a simple empirical model, estimated with panel data for 17...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288127
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Dangerous liaisons? An empirical assessment of inflation targeting and exchange rate regimes
Aguirre, Horacio; Burdisso, Tamara - 2008
The role of the exchange rate under inflation targeting (IT) remains an unresolved issue in literature and policy discussions -and a challenge for central banks implementing IT, especially in developing countries. This paper aims at assessing whether there is a relation between the nominal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325099
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Leading Indicators of Real Activity and Inflation for Turkey, 2001-2010
Altug, Sumru; Uluceviz, Erhan - 2011
This paper develops a set of leading indicators of industrial production growth and consumer price inflation for the period 2001-2010. The choice of indicators is based on pseudo out-of-sample forecasting exercise implemented by Stock and Watson (2003), amongst others. We find that asset prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500195
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Rational expectations and inflation targeting: An analysis for ten countries
Fromlet, Pia - 2010
In this paper I evaluate inflation targeting for ten countries. The evaluation is based on unconditional as well as conditional measures of the variance of inflation around target. With strict inflation targeting, expectations of the future deviation from target given information about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321410
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Hitting the elusive inflation target
Bianchi, Francesco; Melosi, Leonardo; Rottner, Matthias - 2019
Since the 2001 recession, average core inflation has been below the Federal Reserve's 2% target. This deflationary bias is a predictable consequence of a low nominal interest rates environment. When monetary policy faces the risk of encountering the zero lower bound, in.ation tends to remain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012429401
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Flexible Exchange Rate with Inflation Targeting in Chile: Experience and Issues
Gregorio, José De; Tokman, Andrea; Valdés, Rodrigo - 2005
The first five years of the flexible exchange rate and inflation targeting regime in Chile have shown positive results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327065
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Exchange Rate Policy and Inflation Targeting in Colombia
H., Hernando Vargas - 2005
This paper examines Colombia`s experience with an inflation-targeting monetary policy following the abandonment of exchange rate bands in 1999, and two episodes in 2003 and 2004 that deviated from this general behavior. In these episodes, the Central Bank intervened in the forex market on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327189