Low inflation hit the Japanese economy shortly after the burst of the bubble in stocks and real estate in 1991 and has … trade dispute. In the early 1990s, Japan faced sluggish economic growth and low inflation, as well as severe structural … difficult to judge the effectiveness and efficiency of the BOJ's policy tools, as achievement of inflation beyond the 2% price …

This paper compares the performance of simple inflation targeting (IT) and price-level path targeting (PLPT) rules to … preferred to IT for delivering macroeconomic stability, as it delivers a reduction in inflation and nominal interest rate … relative merits of PLPT versus IT in Canada. -- Economic models ; Inflation: costs and benefits ; Inflation and prices …

This paper shows that announced credible disinflations under inflation targeting lead to a boom in a standard New …

Especially, after the 2000s, many developing countries let exchange rates float and began implementing inflation … implementing inflation targeting regimes experienced considerable appreciation trends in their currencies. Might have exchange … rates been utilized as implicit tools even under inflation targeting regimes in developing countries? To answer this …

Inflation targeting is implemented in different ways - most often by adopting point targets, by having tolerance bands … target types affect the anchoring of inflation expectations at shorter horizons differently. It tests two contradictory …. This suggests that there are some benefits to adopting intervals, but the central bank can anchor inflation expectations …

In this paper, I investigate the monetary policy of five industrialized countries which have had explicit inflation … conditions. The results support the theory of flexible inflation targeting under discretion for the United Kingdom. For New … the wind. The central banks of Canada, Sweden, and Australia have behaved in line with the theory of flexible inflation …

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 …

inflation in the durable goods sector. We then analyze the optimal Taylor rule for this economy. If the monetary authority wants … to stabilize the aggregate output gap, it places much more emphasis on stabilizing durable goods inflation (relative to … its share of value-added in the economy). In contrast, if the monetary authority values stabilizing aggregate inflation …

In the last decades, many developing countries abandoned their existing policy regimes and adopted inflation targeting … (IT) by which they aimed to control inflation through the use of policy interest rates. During the period before the … respect to depreciation and appreciation in order to hit their inflation targets. To that end, we analyze central banks …