Introduction Central banks around the world have come to recognize the importance of maintaining low and stable inflation. One widely employed tool for helping to do so is known as inflation targeting, whereby a central bank sets a numeric goal for inflation. Once this target is publicly stated, the bank can be held accountable for its actions in regard to meeting, or not meeting, this target. ...

Unlike the standard assumption that the degree of impatience, measured by the rate of time preference, is increasing in wealth, empirical studies support that impatience is marginally decreasing. By introducing decreasing marginal impatience into the neoclassical monetary growth model á la Sidrauski, we show that (i) consistently with empirical results, an increase in the core rate of inflation...

This paper examines the effect of inflation on real growth in a Solow growth model using data from a cross section of countries over a 30-year period. The advantage of using a theoretical model is that it reduces the risk that the results will reflect data-mining. The results suggest that the 5 percentage point reduction in inflation from the 1970s to the 1980s would increase the growth rate of...

Guy Debelle’s paper makes a strong case for the adoption of an inflation-targeting framework by east Asian countries. This is in stark contrast to the conclusion reached by Masson, Savastano and Sharma (1997), who claim that for most developing countries, inflation targeting is not suitable because central banks lack the ability to conduct an independent monetary policy, their inflation forecas...

The justification for inflation targeting rests on three core propositions. The first is called ‘lean against the wind’, which refers to fact that the monetary authority contracts (expands) aggregate demand below capacity when the actual rate of inflation is above (below) target. The second is ‘the divine coincidence’, which means that stabilizing the rate of inflation around its target is tant...

This article analyzes the recent conduct of monetary and exchange rate policies in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic entered 1993 as a newly independent country. It has introduced inflation targeting and floating exchange rate regime. The multidimensional nature of the inflationtargeting definition explains why there is no consensus about whether or not it should be employed. However, the ...

One significant change in the US economy last 20 years is trend decline real interest rates that pushes policy rate near effective lower bound (ELB) and puts downward pressure on inflation. This environment leaves conventional monetary tools less accommodating adverse shocks. To better achieve Federal Reserve’s dual mandate at ELB, FOMC adopted a new framework called average inflation targeting...