This paper studies the relationship between inflation, output, money and interest rates in the euro area, using data … power for future inflation. The real money gap contains more information about future inflation than the output gap and the … Eurosystem's money-growth indicator is an inferior indicator of future inflation …

**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. …