disinflation under inflation targeting policies. The analysis is motivated by the disinflation performance of many inflation … episode price-setting firms' expect inflation to be highly persistent and opt for backward-looking indexation. As the central … bank acts to bring inflation under control, price-setting firms revise their estimates of the degree of persistence. Such …

a rationale for the practice of inflation zone targeting. We show that the presence of either zone-quadratic preferences … or a zone-linear relationship between inflation and economic activity provides strong incentives to deviate from … structure and relative preference towards economic stability in determining the width of the implied targeted inflation zone …

reunification. A policy that separates learning from control may induce a persistent upward bias in money growth and inflation, just …

Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An … important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This paper studies the optimal monetary … policy in the presence of uncertainty about the natural unemployment rate, the short-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff and …

Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An … important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This paper studies the optimal monetary … policy in the presence of uncertainty about the natural unemployment rate, the short-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff and …

uncertainty: such rules respond to the one-year ahead inflation forecast and to the current output gap, and incorporate a …

target inflation rates as low as 2 percent. However, the effects of the constraint are non-linear with respect to the … inflation target and produce a quantitatively significant deterioration of the performance of the economy with targets between 0 … and 1 percent. The variability of output increases significantly and that of inflation also rises somewhat. Also, we show …

effects in investment financing, credit and house price booms and a role for bank capital. A final exercise illustrates how …

effects in investment financing, credit and house price booms and a role for bank capital. A final exercise illustrates how …