This paper explores the role of exchange rates in emerging economies with inflation-targeting regimes, an issue that … has become especially germane during the current episode of financial turmoil and volatile capital flows. Under inflation … targeting, the interest rate is the main monetary policy tool for influencing activity and inflation, and there is little …

Inflation targeting (IT) serves as monetary policy framework in several advanced economies, where it has enhanced … instruments to inflation. These prerequisites are largely absent among developing countries, though several of them could with … some further institutional changes and an overriding commitment to low inflation make use of an IT framework. …

This paper provides some practical advice on establishing initial conditions in support of an inflation …-targeting monetary framework. These conditions are divided into four areas: a mandate in support of an inflation objective and …

Inflation targeting (IT) is a relatively new monetary policy framework for low-income countries (LICs). The limited … this gap. It finds that inflation targeting appears to be associated with lower inflation and inflation volatility. At the …, where building credibility of monetary policy is difficult and minimizing output costs of reducing inflation is imperative …

frameworks and some have implemented or are moving towards inflation targeting (IT) regimes. Strengthening the monetary policy …

inflation combined with a free float seems to be the ultimate option. The paper shows how to design and operationalize such a …

low long-run inflation objective, operational independence for the People's Bank of China (PBC) with formal strategic … interest rate fluctuations). We argue that anchoring monetary policy with an explicit inflation objective would be the most … reliable way for the PBC to tie down inflation expectations, and thereby enable monetary policy to make the best contribution …

This paper examines the international experience with full-fledged inflation targeting monetary regimes. Stylized facts … are brought together from a review of the institutional elements of inflation targeting frameworks, a comparison of actual … and targeted inflation outcomes, and case studies of large inflation target misses. Inflation targets are missed about 40 …

This paper classifies countries that define their monetary policy framework by an inflation target into full …-fledged inflation targeters, eclectic inflation targeters and inflation targeting lite regimes. This classification is based on … indicators of the clarity and credibility of the commitment to the inflation target. The three regimes can be viewed as …