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The Inflation-Targeting Debate (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth)
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Over the past fifteen years, a significant number of industrialized
and middle-income countries have adopted inflation targeting as a
framework for monetary policymaking.
As the name suggests, in such
inflation-targeting regimes, the central bank is responsible for achieving
a publicly announced target for the inflation rate.
While the objective of
controlling inflation enjoys wide support among both academic experts and
policymakers, and while the countries that have followed this model have
generally experienced good macroeconomic outcomes, many important
questions about inflation targeting remain.
In Inflation
Targeting, a distinguished group of contributors explores the many
underexamined dimensions of inflation targeting--its potential, its
successes, and its limitations--from both a theoretical and an empirical
standpoint, and for both developed and emerging economies.
The volume
opens with a discussion of the optimal formulation of inflation-targeting
policy and continues with a debate about the desirability of such a model
for the United States.
The concluding chapters discuss the special
problems of inflation targeting in emerging markets, including the Czech
Republic, Poland, and Hungary.
About the AuthorBen S. Bernanke is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder
Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
He
is a member of the board of governors of the United States Federal Reserve
System, coauthor of two economics textbooks and of Inflation Targeting:
Lessons from the International Experience. Michael Woodford is
the Harold H. Helm ’20 Professor of Economics and Banking at
Princeton University. He is the author of Interest and Prices:
Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy and coeditor of the
Handbook of Macroeconomics and Knowledge, Information, and Expectations
in Modern Macroeconomics.
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