Evaluating inflation-targeting monetary policy is more complicated than checking whether inflation has been on target …, because inflation control is imperfect and flexible inflation targeting means that deviations from target may be deliberate in … variability of the inflation-gap and output-gap forecasts can be used to evaluate policy ex ante, that is, taking into account the …

This paper studies the transmission of shocks and the trade-offs between stabilizing CPI inflation and alternative … policy, and second, that the trade-off between stabilizing CPI inflation and the output gap strongly depends on which concept …

to alternative policy assumptions and supports that the model may be regarded as structural in a stable low inflation …