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This paper studies the effects of the monetary policy regime shift to inflation targeting on the stochastic properties … shifts with the monetary policy regime change to inflation targeting in October 1992. The mean-reverting level of the real … interest rate has decreased from 5.1% to 2.3% per annum with the change in monetary policy to inflation targeting. In addition …
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inflation targeting, with short-term flexibility, based on a more discretionary and pragmatic approach to monetary policy. The … discretion and rigidly defined short-term inflation targeting. …
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of flexible inflation targeting (price stability and the highest sustainable employment), including keeping average … inflation over a longer period on target; (2) not adding household debt as a new (intermediate) target variable, in addition to … inflation and unemployment – not “leaning against the wind,” which is counterproductive, but leaving any problems with household …
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Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have experienced an extraordinary decline in inflation since the early … 1970s. After peaking in 1974 at 17.3 percent, inflation in these economies declined to 3.5 percent in 2017. Despite a … checkered history of managing inflation among many EMDEs, disinflation occurred across all regions. This paper presents a …
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particular the aim of price stability, understood as low and stable inflation. Design/Research methods: The article was prepared … inflation reduces uncertainty about future price developments. This facilitates decision-making for companies concerning …
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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 …
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financial stability. For this purpose, monetary policy is described by a flexible inflation targeting regime using the interest …
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When indexation is endogenous price level targeting slightly adds to economic stability, contrary to widespread fears to the contrary. The aggregate supply curve flattens and the aggregate demand curve steepens, increasing stability in the face of supply shocks.
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This paper estimates the effects of inflation targeting (IT) adoption over inflation dynamics using a wide control … counterfactuals to the actual inflation targeters. With this approach we find that IT has helped in reducing the level and volatility … of inflation in the countries that adopted it. This result is robust to alternative definitions of treatment and control …
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This article theoretically and empirically investigates the determinants of inflation in a sample of 83 countries …, including countries that adopt an inflation targeting regime (ITR) and countries that do not, for the period 2000 to 2021. The … rates, food and energy - causing a rise in inflation and bringing recessive effects that may be more pronounced in ITR …
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