central banks target inflation at a rate of about 2 percent. Many economists have recently proposed even higher inflation … importance of appropriately accounting for a low, positive trend inflation rate for the conduct of monetary policy. We first … review empirical research on the evolution and dynamics of U.S. trend inflation, as well as some proposed new measures to …

This talk emphasizes the connection between inflation targeting and monetary policy rules. Inflation targeting is not … monetary policy rule without a target inflation rate. Hence, there is a symbiotic relationship between inflation targeting and … of inflation. Interest rate rules work best within a band between very high inflation and deflation. Outside that band …

This paper examines the persistence of inflation in inflation and non-inflation targeting countries. It is shown … empirically that inflation persistence has fallen in inflation targeting countries relative to some non-inflation targeting … countries. However, it is not possible to determine at present whether the institutional design of inflation targets and the …

Inflation targeting is shown to imply inflation forecast targeting: the central bank's inflation forecast becomes an … explicit intermediate target. Inflation forecast targeting simplifies both implementation and monitoring of monetary policy …. The weight on output stabilization determines how quickly the inflation forecast is adjusted towards the inflation target …

Previous analysis of the implementation of inflation targeting is extended to monetary policy responses to different … stabilization or smoothing all call for a more gradual adjustment of the conditional inflation forecast toward the inflation target …. The conditional inflation forecast is the natural intermediate target during inflation targeting …

Inflation targeting is shown to imply inflation forecast targeting: the central bank's inflation forecast becomes an … explicit intermediate target. Inflation forecast targeting simplifies both implementation and monitoring of monetary policy …. The weight on output stabilization determines how quickly the inflation forecast is adjusted towards the inflation target …