This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding on how inflation targets are set. For this reason, we first … inflation targets are set; we then estimate the determinants of the level of inflation target in 19 inflation targeting … than as a point). Inflation targets are found to reflect macroeconomic fundamentals. Higher level as well as higher …

This paper studies the importance of money for inflation in the euro area. An inflation equation is derived from a … small model that combines the supply and demand for money with a Phillips curve and the assumption that inflation … expectations develop adaptively. The model's solution attributes an impact on inflation not to actual money growth but to its core …

price stability (or low inflation); an interest rate instrument controlled by the rates on settlement balances at the … inflation process has parallels in the modern Phillips curve. Moreover, in a mandate for price stability, one can find a logical …

optimal money growth rates are realized if agents entering financial contracts anticipate ensuing inflation rates determined …

to support the standard objection to such policies: that they will lead to uncontrollable inflation. Theoretical models … support for a relationship between monetary financing and inflation. The findings lend support to recent calls for explicit …

Under inflation targeting inflation exhibits negative serial correlation in the United Kingdom, and little or no …, inflation appears to be (nearly) purely forward-looking, so that no mechanism introducing backward-looking components is … necessary to fit the data. These results question the notion that the intrinsic inflation persistence found in post-WWII U …

that the inflation bias can persist even when the central bank commits. A simple model is presented in which the central … bank precommits by setting the policy instrument, and the subsequent adjustment of inflation expectations is part of the … transmission mechanism. Generally there is still an inflation bias, despite the absence of a time-inconsistency problem. It is …

Recent literature has argued that exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into domestic inflation has been declining in many … countries following a dramatic change in inflation environment during the 1990s. Available empirical results face two central … arbitrariness; and (ii) the link between a lower ERPT and inflation environment is usually based on simple correlation analysis and …