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 …

) has been to raise inflation targets to provide more room for policy rate easing during crises. This paper addresses a … different issue: the relationship between inflation and welfare. The literature is surveyed and a model is developed. A key … conclusion is that an increase in inflation targets gives rise to additional welfare costs, even after the extra room to maneuver …

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 …

We develop a semi-structural new-Keynesian open-economy model, with separate food and non-food inflation dynamics, for …-relevant exercises. First, we filter international and Kenyan data (on output, inflation and its components, exchange rates and interest … inflation. Third, we perform an out-of-sample forecast to identify where the economy—and therefore policy—was likely headed …

for establishing the other building blocks of an inflation targeting framework. It argues that strengthening the … effectiveness of the current monetary policy framework will facilitate the adoption of inflation targeting over time. …

Extending recent theoretical contributions on sources of inflation inertia, we argue that monetary uncertainty accounts …

This paper studies the role of central bank communication of its economic assessment in shaping inflation dynamics … agents' understanding of policy reasoning, could bring about less volatile inflation and interest rate dynamics, and afford …

Uruguay’s inflation and inflation expectations exceed the inflation target, and the gap has been widening in recent …

This paper investigates the determinants of inflation in the Dominican Republic during 1991-2002, a period …-correction model using quarterly observations, the paper finds that inflation is explained by changes in monetary aggregates, real … output, foreign inflation, and the exchange rate. Long-run relationships in the money and traded-goods markets are found to …