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This short paper use the perspective of the assignment problem to examine the evolution of the workings of monetary policy and the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England over its first 25 years. It outlines how the Bank, and the MPC, came across additional possible objectives and...
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This document proposes a general macroeconomic framework to analyze the behavior of inflation. This approach has two … price level. When all shocks have a permanent impact, the regime determines the inflation rate, as in inflation targeting … cause the rate of inflation or the price level. With this, a new perspective on four different historical cases emerges. One …
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**The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract.** Inflation targeting is shown to imply … inflation forecast targeting: the central bank's inflation forecast becomes an explicit intermediate target. Inflation forecast … quickly the inflation forecast is adjusted towards the inflation target. Money growth or exchange rate targeting is generally …
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This study examines the impact of various monetary policy regimes on the ability to lower inflation and exchange rate … policy framework of flexible targeting of relative inflation risk premium that is believed to be credible and useful for … managing these two categories of risk. A model of inflation and exchange rate risk premiums within the context of inflation …
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income growth targeting versus optimal inflation targeting. When the economy under consideration is mainly subject to shocks … that do not involve monetary policy trade-offs for society, inflation targeting is preferable. Otherwise, nominal income … growth targeting may be superior because it induces inertial interest rate behavior that improves the inflation-output gap …
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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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In a standard New Keynesian model, a myopic central bank concerned with stabilizing inflation and changes in the output … stabilizing output gap changes, the central bank imparts inertia into output and inflation that is absent under pure discretion … social outcomes if it focuses on inflation and changes in the output gap than are achieved under inflation targeting. …
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The objective of this paper isto investigate the impact of inflation targeting strategy on monetary policy transmission … inflation targeting countries and 20 non-inflation targeting countries. This study implies Generalized Method of Moments (GMM …) for empirical investigation. The evaluation of transmission mechanism in the presence of inflation targeting strategy by …
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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 …
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conclusions include: (1) There is little evidence that inflation targeting affects performance in advanced economies, but some …
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