Inflation-targeting monetary policy is compared with price-level targeting. It is argued that price-level targeting offers greater certainty about the long-term inflation rate, greater economic growth, a superior response to a deflationary depression, and other advantages

The European Central Bank is unique in setting monetary policy for several sovereign states with heterogeneous debt levels and different maturity structures. The monetary-fiscal nexus is central to the functioning of the euro area. We focus on one particular aspect of that nexus, the effect the...