economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments that the flexible exchange rate has undermined real economic …

Inflation in advanced economies is low by historical standards but there is no threat of deflation. Slower economic … growth is caused by supply-side constraints rather than low inflation. Below-the-target inflation does not damage the … reputation of central banks. Thus, central banks should not try to bring inflation back to the targeted level of 2%. Rather, they …

-run trade-offs between output and inflation: lower trend inflation flattens the Phillips curve and decreases steady-state output … by increasing markups. We show that the aggregator reduces both the steady-state welfare cost of higher trend inflation … and the inflation-related weight in a model-based welfare function for higher trend inflation. Consequently, optimal trend …

Several empirical studies have suggested that the Bundesbank has pursued inflation targets rather than monetary targets …, the significance of this coefficient drops to 10 percent. By contrast, deviations of the inflation rate from the inflation …. This result holds regardless of whether the lagged or the currently expected inflation rate is employed. The results are …

This paper analyses the effects of two alternative monetary strategies (exchange rate targeting and inflation targeting … that countries in exchange rate targeting have a higher rate of GDP growth and lower inflation rate. In order to test the … related to exchange rate targeting, the effects of the introduction of inflation targeting in the unemployment rate were also …

The study provides estimates of the threshold level of inflation for Russia based on panel threshold models. This paper …’s aim is to estimate the «optimal» level of inflation and to determine the number of thresholds for Russia within, unlike … ratio test to verify which model specification is optimal. The results indicate that the target inflation rate of 4% in …

This paper tackles the monetary policy performance in Brazil, Chile and South Africa under inflation targeting … changes due to the adoption of inflation targeting regime in those countries. The main findings are as follows: inflation …

important tools for government to influence the economy. Exchange rate and inflation are believed to be the most appealing … studies on the effect of exchange-rate arrangements and inflation targeting on economic growth suffer from the absence of a … results consistently support that an inflation targeting regime has a positive impact on economic growth when compared with an …

economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments that the flexible exchange rate has undermined real economic …

situation helps to explain the surge in the country's inflation and its very high growth in financial condition from late 2007 …