1. Introduction. 2. Case Studies. 3. Direct Effects and International Spillover Effects on the Macroeconomy: Dynamic Panel GMM Analysis. 4. Direct Effects and International Spillover Effects on Financial Markets: Event Study Approach

This paper examines the effectiveness of inflation targeting to stabilize the real economy of the advanced countries where inflation targeting was adopted in the early 1990s. This paper employs the monetary business cycle accounting methodology recently developed by Šustek (2011) which is an...