The popularity of inflation targeting has risen in the last decade and the number of countries that adopted inflation … targeting as their monetary policy framework surpassed 40 by the end of 2016. This study analyzes whether inflation targeting … around the world has been successful in terms of achieving the announced target and keeping inflation rate around it. We …

long run Phillips curve recorded -0.75 in Sweden and -0.23 in the United States. While the average inflation rate in the … United States was very close to its targeted level, the average inflation rate in Sweden was 0.6 per- centage points below … its targeted level over the sample period. The deviation of inflation rate from its targeted level in Sweden resulted in …

We analyse the interaction between private agents? uncertainty about inflation target and the central bank's data … uncertainty. In our model, private agents update their perceived inflation target and the central bank estimates unobservable … economic shocks as well as the perceived inflation target. Under those two uncertainties, the learning process of both private …

We construct an empirical test of whether the anticipation of adoption of inflation targeting affects the inflation … rate. We observe that most of the central banks adopt the regime after first achieving significant disinflation. With pre-inflation …-in-difference framework. We find that inflation targeting is successful in locking-in already low inflation rather than reducing high …

accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and less stabilization of supply shocks …

accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and less stabilization of supply shocks …

Headline inflation in the euro area jumped to more than three percent in the summer after years of relatively low … inflation rates well below the target of close to but below two percent set by the ECB until July 2021. One of the main reasons … for the rise in inflation is the increase in energy prices since the beginning of 2021. However, there are further …

In this paper, we study how inflation is viewed by the general population of New Zealand. Based on unique … aspects of how laypersons perceive inflation and form inflation expectations. We focus on how an individual's economic … situation, information search and interest in inflation, economic knowledge, and attitudes and values are related to inflation …

In this paper, we study how inflation is viewed by the general population of New Zealand. Based on unique … aspects of how laypersons perceive inflation and form inflation expectations. We focus on how an individual's economic … situation, information search and interest in inflation, economic knowledge, and attitudes and values are related to inflation …

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 …