The paper discusses the choice between inflation targeting and monetary targeting as a strategy for the Eurosystem, the actual strategy the Eurosystem announced in the fall of 1998, the framework for policy decisions appropriate for achieving the goals of the Eurosystem, the role of exchange...

The purpose of the paper is to survey and discuss inflation targeting in the context of monetary policy rules. The paper provides a general discussion of monetary policy rules, attempts to clarify the essential characteristics of inflation targeting, compares inflation targeting to other...

Using a small empirical model of inflation, output, and money estimated on U.S. data, we compare the relative performance of monetary targeting and inflation targeting. The results show that monetary targeting would be quite inefficient, with both higher inflation and output variability. This is...

The so-called P* model is frequently used or referred to in discussions of monetary targeting. This gives the impression that the P* model might provide some rationaly for monetary targeting or for the monetary reference value used by the Eurosystem. The P* model implies that inflation is...