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 …

Lukas Heim evaluates the performance of a price-level targeting rule compared to that of a standard inflation targeting …, and several additional structural disturbances. The results show that - exactly as expected - the volatility of inflation …-side shocks. Since inflation and output are targeted simultaneously, none of the two policies is strictly dominant. Contents …