Inflation targeting and price-making in monetary economies: is it possible to conciliate growth with price stability …? - Recently a number of countries have adopted explicit inflation targets as a guide for policy since a numerical target is … attractive for anchoring inflation expectations. Monetary policy, under inflation targeting, is implemented grounded on handling …

Monetary policy, inflation and economic growth: the influence of the monetary authority?s reputation upon the economy … The following paper aims to show that, although a monetary policy, which merely seeks to control inflation through an … interest rate rule (under inflation targeting), may reach such a goal, it will present a worst outcome whether compared to a …

variables. These results cast some doubts about the ability of the Phillips curve to describe the dynamics of inflation in the …

study, the following are more remarkable. Firstly, the inflationary inertia and expectation of inflation are important … variables for the dynamic of inflation although the relevance of expectation seems to be more relevant in a more recent period … that the sum of coefficients of lagged inflation and expectation of inflation is equal to unity. Thirdly, the effect of …

The evaluation of forecasts performance of market expectations about the Brazilian inflation rate (Focus survey) is …) showed that, in the period 2000.1 2005.4, several models had superior forecast ability than the mean of market inflation rate …

This paper aims to discuss the determinants of Brazilian inflation measured by the Extended National Consumer Price … more influence on inflation are ordered by the so-called Inflation Targeting Pressure Index (ITPI), designed to measure the … function method, with monthly data from 1999 to 2009 to estimate the macroeconomic determinants of inflation in the 22 …

This paper presents estimates for Brazilian inflation during the 2000s. The results of a structural model with two … endogenous variables - wage inflation and consumer inflation - indicate that: i) the demand indicator was not statistically … significant in the consumer inflation, but it was important to explain wage inflation; ii) variations in the exchange rate and in …