We examine the relative ability of simple inflation targeting (IT) and price level targeting (PLT) monetary policy … rules to minimize both inflation variability and business cycle fluctuations in Canada for shocks that have important … persistent cost-push pressures in the economy leading to a significant deterioration in the inflation – output gap trade …

global inflation. The process of globalization has motivated much debate over whether global factors have become more … important in driving the inflation process. Since commodity prices respond to global demand and supply conditions, they are a … potential channel through which foreign shocks could influence domestic inflation. The author assesses whether commodity prices …

This paper compares the performance of simple inflation targeting (IT) and price-level path targeting (PLPT) rules to … preferred to IT for delivering macroeconomic stability, as it delivers a reduction in inflation and nominal interest rate …

The author provides an overview of the 1975–78 Anti-Inflation Program (AIP), in a background document prepared for a … policy response to, inflation in the decade preceding the introduction of the AIP, the author sets out the elements of the … AIP's monetary and fiscal policy, and prices and incomes controls. He then compares the program's inflation objectives …

The linkages between inflation and the economy's cyclical position are thought to be strongly affected by the … endogenizes and estimates credibility parameters, allowing inflation expectations to be a mix of backward- and forward … between policy credibility and divergences of inflation from target, which is also assumed to change over history. Finally …

Inflation targeting (IT) had originally been introduced as a device to bring inflation down and stabilize it at low … levels. Given the current environment of persistently weak inflation in many advanced economies, IT central banks must now … bring inflation up to target. In this paper, the author tests to what extent inflation expectations are anchored in such …

Inflation-targeting central banks around the world often state their inflation objectives with regard to the consumer … sector suggests that CPI inflation is not always the best choice from a social welfare perspective. We revisit this issue in … multiple dimensions. With key parameters of the model estimated using data from an inflation targeting economy, namely Canada …