optimal monetary policy and inflation targeting

Inflation Targeting and Optimal Monetary Policy

Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting

In the 1990s, several countries shifted to a new monetary policy regime: an announced quantitative inflation target. The reason for this shift was the unsatisfactory performance under previous regimes. New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and Spain all introduced inflation targets under persistently high inflation; the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Finland did so after having abandoned fixed exchange ...

Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting

On 21–22 July 1997, the Bank convened a conference entitled, 'Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting'. The following excer pt is the introductory chapter of the conference volume. Medium-term price stability is widely accepted as the appropriate ultimate goal for monetary policy. This reflects two ideas. The first is that high rates of inflation distort decision-making, ultimately leading to s...

Introduction to Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting

Medium-term price stability is widely accepted as the appropriate ultimate goal for monetary policy. This reflects two ideas. The first is that high rates of inflation distort decision-making, ultimately leading to slower economic growth. The second is that monetary policy is the most effective instrument in influencing medium-term inflation outcomes. By pursuing a strategy that ensures that in...

Inflation Risk and Optimal Monetary Policy

This paper shows that the optimal monetary policies recommended by New Keynesian models still imply a large amount of inflation risk. We calculate the term structure of inflation uncertainty in New Keynesian models when the monetary authority adopts the optimal policy. When the monetary policy rules are modified to include some weight on a price path, the economy achieves equilibria with substa...

Is Inflation Targeting Best-Practice Monetary Policy?

natives, such as the current practices at central banks around the world. Of course, the ITF community is now large and varied. We focus mainly on the industrialized countries. One might say that we consider the role of the ITF in a low-inflation steady-state and do not address the important question of how it might help in reaching such a steady-state. In much of the paper we seek to highlight...