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stellte sich heraus, daß für knapp die Hälfte der Befragten das Geldmengenziel keinen hohen Informationsgehalt besaß. Eine … der Lage waren, das Geldmengenziel insbesondere in Hinblick auf die von der Zentralbank angestrebte Inflationsrate zu … überwältigende Mehrheit der Befragten sprach sich für eine Mischstrategie aus Geldmengen- und Inflationsziel aus. …
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The mainstream inflation-targeting literature makes the strong assumption that the central bank can exactly target the interest rate which affects investment and consumption decisions and hence the money supply plays no role in the monetary policy strategy. This assumption is equivalent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992134
In this paper a small econometric model with model-consistent expectations is adopted for the euro zone to study monetary and inflation targeting. Similation results show that the 'costs' in terms of inflation and economic growth volatility are by and large lowest in case of inflation targeting....
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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...
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This Paper compares the social efficiency of monetary targeting and inflation targeting when central banks may have private information on shocks to money demand and, because of verifiability problems, the transparency solution is not feasible. Under inflation targeting and monetary targeting,...
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This paper discusses how price stability can be defined and how price stability can be maintained in practice. Some lessons for the Eurosystem are also considered. With regard to defining price stability, the choice between price-level stability and low (including zero) inflation and the...
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The paper discusses the choice between inflation targeting and monetary targeting as a strategy for the Eurosystem, the actual strategy the Eurosystem announced in the fall of 1998, the framework of the policy decisions appropriate for achieving the goals of the Eurosystem, the role of the...
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This paper demonstrates how a target for money growth can be beneficial for an inflation targeting central bank acting under discretion. Because the growth rate of money is closely related to the change in the interest rate and he growth of real output, delegating a money growth target to the...
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The mainstream inflation-targeting literature makes the strong assumption that the central bank can exactly target the interest rate which affects investment and consumption decisions and hence the money supply plays no role in the monetary policy strategy. This assumption is equivalent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616832
In this paper, it is argued that money supply in a narrow sense and repo interest rate are two independent monetary policy instruments when the effect of interest rate policy cannot be efficiently transmitted to the economy through the monetary and financial markets. In this case, the control of...
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