This paper analyzes inflation targeting, focusing on the interest-price transmission mechanism. The authors discuss the recent performance of the retail industry in Brazil, highlighting how monetary policy affects prices, both directly and indirectly. The key hypothesis is that interest rates...

Central Bank transparency: an analysis of the Brazilian case. Nowadays there is a tendency among central banks of increasing transparency in the conduction of the monetary policy. After the adoption of inflation targeting in Brazil there was an increase in the communication of the Central Bank...