Since 1990, a growing number of countries have adopted inflation targeting (IT) around the world. Empirical evidence on its advantages has been mixed so far, and most assessments have been based on a control group methodology. In this paper, using a MSVAR technique, we assess the adoption of IT in three industrialised countries over time; in addition, we compare their outcomes with a non-IT cou...

Do political and fiscal decentralization make it easier or harder to control inflation? If high inflation reflects the time inconsistency problem, devolving power might restrict the center’s ability to renege on promises of monetary stability, thus reducing inflation. If inflation results from failure to coordinate on a stabilization plan, devolving power to numerous regional governments should...

We thank Mike Cox, Greg Huffman, Eric Leeper, John Welch, Mark Wynne, and, especially, Evan Koenig and Ellis Tallman for very helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article, as well as Steven Prue for excellent research assistance and Rhonda Harris and Monica Reeves for careful editorial review. Any remaining errors are our own responsibility. A four countries has been mixed, as Table 1 ind...

decline in inflation in emerging market economies.1 By the end of 2000, average inflation in emerging markets had declined from triple-digit figures in the late 1980s to some 5 percent excluding a few outlier cases—Indonesia, Turkey, and Venezuela (Table 4.1). Such low levels of inflation have not been seen since before World War II, when, mostly under the discipline of the gold standard system...

reputation of a monetary’s authority, is an agents believe on his to control of deviation between targeting inflation and observed inflation. on one hand , a monterey’s authority, can throw agent’s trust to his polices, leading to lower inflation expectations and inflation. but on the other hand, government pressure on the monetary authority to do discretionary monetary policy( such as creation...

Inflation is an important phenomenon in the national economy, and central banks have made it one of their tasks to control inflation. The core research object this paper causes inflation China since entered 21st century, Entropy-weighting Method used construct a comprehensive indicator system, including 5 different factors contributing inflation, then analyze using VAR model. following conclusi...