inflation combined with a free float seems to be the ultimate option. The paper shows how to design and operationalize such a …

Inflation targeting (IT) serves as monetary policy framework in several advanced economies, where it has enhanced … instruments to inflation. These prerequisites are largely absent among developing countries, though several of them could with … some further institutional changes and an overriding commitment to low inflation make use of an IT framework. …

This paper explores the role of exchange rates in emerging economies with inflation-targeting regimes, an issue that … has become especially germane during the current episode of financial turmoil and volatile capital flows. Under inflation … targeting, the interest rate is the main monetary policy tool for influencing activity and inflation, and there is little …

The Maastricht inflation criterion, designed in the early 1990s to bring "high-inflation" EU countries in line with … "low-inflation" countries prior to the introduction of the euro, poses challenges for both new EU member countries and the … European Central Bank. While the criterion has positively influenced the public stance toward low inflation, it has biased the …

This paper examines the international experience with full-fledged inflation targeting monetary regimes. Stylized facts … are brought together from a review of the institutional elements of inflation targeting frameworks, a comparison of actual … and targeted inflation outcomes, and case studies of large inflation target misses. Inflation targets are missed about 40 …

-rate policy fits a conventional forward-looking reaction function with an inflation target of about 1 percent. The disappointing … inflation target would not have yielded a lasting improvement in performance. However, a price-targeting rule or a policy rule … that combined a higher inflation target with a more aggressive response to output would have achieved superior …

The ECB's objective of medium-term inflation below 2 percent has been portrayed by critics as ambiguous, asymmetric … that: (1) in terms of guiding inflation expectations and policymaking, the current definition has functioned much as would … an inflation target centered on 1 1/2-1 3/4 percent; (2) the absence of a specific (point) target for medium …