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Monetary Targeting: The International Experience

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  • VICTOR ARGY
  • ANTHONY BRENNAN
  • GLENN STEVENS

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This paper examines the experience of nine industrial countries with monetary targeting. The paper suggests that monetary targets were adopted as a tactical response to a particular economic situation, not as monetary rules. Other objectives were given precedence over targets when thought desirable. Most countries changed the targeted aggregate, and two dropped targets altogether. While inflation fell in most countries, the extent to which this was due to the pursuit of monetary targets is unclear. The place of monetary aggregates in many countries now appears to be as one among a number of indicators considered by the authorities in the setting of monetary policy.

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  • Victor Argy & Anthony Brennan & Glenn Stevens, 1990. "Monetary Targeting: The International Experience," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 66(1), pages 37-62, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:66:y:1990:i:1:p:37-62
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1990.tb02084.x
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