Previous studies have shown that, under certain conditions, a central bank could achieve a better trade-off between inflation and output volatility by replacing its inflation target with a price-level target. This paper studies whether a Taylor rule that targets the price-level instead of the...

This paper uses a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE) to study how different characteristics of an economy, such as openness or price stickiness, affect the contribution of the relative price of non-traded goods to real exchange rate fluctuations. The model shows that...