Inflation-targeting, price-path targeting and indeterminacy

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Inflation-targeting, price-path targeting and indeterminacy

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Robert Dittmar
William T. Gavin

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William Thomas Gavin

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In this paper, we examine the areas of indeterminacy in a flexible price RBC model with shopping time role for money and a central bank that uses an interest rate rule to target inflation and/or the price level. We present analytical results showing that, although inflation targeting often results in real indeterminacy, a price level target generally delivers a unique equilibrium for a relevant range of policy parameters.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in its series Working Papers with number 2004-007.

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Date of creation: 2004
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Publication status: Published in Economics Letters, September 2005, 88(3), pp. 336-42
Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlwp:2004-007

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- Dittmar, Robert D. & Gavin, William T., 2005. "Inflation-targeting, price-path targeting and indeterminacy," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 88(3), pages 336-342, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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Eagle, David, 2007. "Revealing the naked truth behind price determinacy, infinite-horizon rational expectations, and inflation targeting," MPRA Paper 1538, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 22 Feb 2007. [Downloadable!]
Michael D. Bordo & Robert D. Dittmar & William T. Gavin, 2003. "Gold, Fiat Money, and Price Stability," NBER Working Papers 10171, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Michael D. Bordo & Robert Dittmar & William T. Gavin, 2006. "Gold, fiat money and price stability," Working Papers 2003-014, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. [Downloadable!]
- Michael D. Bordo & Robert D. Dittmar & William T. Gavin, 2007. "Gold, Fiat Money, and Price Stability," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 7(1). [Downloadable!]
Oleksiy Kryvtsov & Malik Shukayev & Alexander Ueberfeldt, 2007. "Optimal Monetary Policy and Price Stability Over the Long-Run," Working Papers 07-26, Bank of Canada. [Downloadable!]

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