Why Inflation Targeting?

Why Inflation Targeting?
ISBN-10
145187233X
ISBN-13
9781451872330
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
27
Language
English
Published
2009-04-01
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Authors
Mr.Douglas Laxton, Charles Freedman

Description

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 general discussion of the need for a nominal anchor, we describe a specific type of monetary anchor, the inflation-targeting regime, and its two key intellectual roots-the absence of long-run trade-offs and the time-inconsistency problem. We conclude by providing a brief introduction to the way in which inflation targeting works.

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