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Why inflation targeting? /

This is the second chapter of a forthcoming monograph entitled ""On Implementing Full-Fledged Inflation-Targeting Regimes: Saying What You Do and Doing What You Say."" We begin by discussing the costs of inflation, including their role in generating boom-bust cycles. Following a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Freedman, Charles (Autor), Laxton, Douglas (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund. Research Department
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Washington, DC] : International Monetary Fund (IMF), ©2009.
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/09/86.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction; II. Cost of Inflation and Boom-Bust Cycles; A. What Are the Costs of High Inflation?; B. Policy Credibility and Boom-Bust Cycles; Figures; 1. United Kingdom Inflation, Unemployment and Policy Credibility; III. Need for A Nominal Anchor; Tables; 1. Inflation Targeting Adoption Dates; IV. What is Inflation Targeting?; V. Two Key Intellectual Roots of Inflation Targeting; A. Absence of Long-Run Trade-Offs; Box 2.1; 1. Six Principles of Inflation Targeting; 2. Output-Inflation Tradeoffs in the Short Run and Long Run
  • 3. IRFs for a Positive Demand Shock Under Good and Bad Monetary Policy4. IRFs for a Positive Supply Shock Under Good and Bad Monetary Policy; 2. Reduced-Form Inflation Equations Under Good and Bad Monetary Policy; B. The Time-Inconsistency Problem; 5. Taylor Output-Inflation Efficiency Frontiers; VI. How Does IT Work?; References