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The Inflation-Targeting Debate

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  • Bernanke, Ben S.
  • Woodford, Michael

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Over the past fifteen years, a significant number of industrialized and middle-income countries have adopted inflation targeting as a framework for monetary policymaking. As the name suggests, in such inflation-targeting regimes, the central bank is responsible for achieving a publicly announced target for the inflation rate. While the objective of controlling inflation enjoys wide support among both academic experts and policymakers, and while the countries that have followed this model have generally experienced good macroeconomic outcomes, many important questions about inflation targeting remain. In Inflation Targeting, a distinguished group of contributors explores the many underexamined dimensions of inflation targeting—its potential, its successes, and its limitations—from both a theoretical and an empirical standpoint, and for both developed and emerging economies. The volume opens with a discussion of the optimal formulation of inflation-targeting policy and continues with a debate about the desirability of such a model for the United States. The concluding chapters discuss the special problems of inflation targeting in emerging markets, including the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary.

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  • Bernanke, Ben S. & Woodford, Michael (ed.), 2006. "The Inflation-Targeting Debate," National Bureau of Economic Research Books, University of Chicago Press, number 9780226044729, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:bknber:9780226044729
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    1. Matsumura, Marco & Moreira, Ajax & Vicente, José, 2011. "Forecasting the yield curve with linear factor models," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 20(5), pages 237-243.
    2. Florin Cornel Dumiter, 2009. "Central Bank Independence and Inflation Targeting.The Case of Romania," Romanian Economic Journal, Department of International Business and Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, vol. 12(33), pages 23-60, (3).
    3. Adam, Klaus & Marcet, Albert, 2011. "Internal rationality, imperfect market knowledge and asset prices," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 146(3), pages 1224-1252, May.
    4. Eduardo Wiesner, 2008. "The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy Reform in Latin America," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 12913.
    5. Walter, Timo, 2019. "Janus Face of Inflation Targeting_Walter_PrePrint," OSF Preprints 9fmhe, Center for Open Science.
    6. Coulibaly, Dramane & Kempf, Hubert, 2019. "Inflation targeting and the forward bias puzzle in emerging countries," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 19-33.
    7. Chen Wang, 2016. "Does Inflation Targeting Work Well? Evidence from CEE Countries," Acta Oeconomica, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 66(3), pages 375-392, September.
    8. Esteban Pérez Caldentey & Matías Vernengo, 2013. "Is inflation targeting operative in an open economy setting?," Review of Keynesian Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 1(3), pages 347-369, January.
    9. Selwyn Cornish, 2018. "The Evolution of Inflation Targeting In Australia," CEH Discussion Papers 11, Centre for Economic History, Research School of Economics, Australian National University.
    10. Marco Shinobu Matsumura & Ajax Reynaldo Bello Moreira & José Valentim Machado Vicente, 2010. "Forecasting the Yield Curve with Linear Factor Models," Working Papers Series 223, Central Bank of Brazil, Research Department.
    11. Florin Cornel DUMITER, 2009. "Measuring Central Bank Independence and Inflation Targeting in Developed and Developing Countries," Timisoara Journal of Economics, West University of Timisoara, Romania, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, vol. 2(2(6)), pages 83-100.
    12. Bleich, Dirk & Fendel, Ralf & Rülke, Jan-Christoph, 2012. "Inflation targeting makes the difference: Novel evidence on inflation stabilization," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 31(5), pages 1092-1105.
    13. Walter, Timo & Wansleben, Leon, 2018. "How Central Bankers Learned to Love Financialization: The Fed, the Bank, and the Enlisting of Unfettered Markets in the Conduct of Monetary Policy," OSF Preprints gzyp6, Center for Open Science.

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