**The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract.** Inflation targeting is shown to imply … inflation forecast targeting: the central bank's inflation forecast becomes an explicit intermediate target. Inflation forecast … quickly the inflation forecast is adjusted towards the inflation target. Money growth or exchange rate targeting is generally …

-level stability and low (including zero) inflation and the decisions about the price index, the quantitative target and the role of … a commitment to a simple instrument rule (like a Taylor rule), forecast targeting (like inflation-forecast targeting … against inflation-forecast targeting are scrutinized and found unconvincing. …

Using a small empirical model of inflation, output, and money estimated on U.S. data, we compare the relative … performance of monetary targeting and inflation targeting. The results show that monetary targeting would be quite inefficient …, with both higher inflation and output variability. This is true even with a deterministic money demand formulation. In this …

-level stability and low (including zero) inflation and the decisions about the price index, the quantitative target and the role of … a "commitment to a simple instrument rule" (like a Taylor Rule), "forecast targeting" (like inflation-forecast targeting … against inflation-forecast targeting are scrutinized and found unconvincing …

Using a small empirical model of inflation, output, and money estimated on U.S. data, we compare the relative … performance of monetary targeting and inflation targeting. The results show that monetary targeting would be quite inefficient …, with both higher inflation and output variability. This is true even with a deterministic money demand formulation. In this …

long run Phillips curve recorded -0.75 in Sweden and -0.23 in the United States. While the average inflation rate in the … United States was very close to its targeted level, the average inflation rate in Sweden was 0.6 per- centage points below … its targeted level over the sample period. The deviation of inflation rate from its targeted level in Sweden resulted in …

-level stability and low (including zero) inflation and the decisions about the price index, the quantitative target and the role of … a commitment to a simple instrument rule (like a Taylor rule), forecast targeting (like inflation-forecast targeting … against inflation-forecast targeting are scrutinized and found unconvincing. …

Using a small empirical model of inflation, output, and money estimated on U.S. data, we compare the relative … performance of monetary targeting and inflation targeting. The results show that monetary targeting would be quite inefficient …, with both higher inflation and output variability. This is true even with a deterministic money demand formulation. In this …