Since deregulation in the 1980s, all advanced countries have gone along the same route increasingly shaping their financial regulations according to principles and theoretical models set out by global standard setters. Structural fragilities, failures of regulators, and short-sighted supervisors...

We study whether the adoption of inflation targeting (IT) has constituted a regime switch in Sweden using a Markov-Switching VAR technique. We assess, based on two different specifications, the relative preference for inflation in the monetary reaction function and the capacity of IT to reduce...

Empirical evidence on inflation targeting (IT) outcomes has been mixed so far, mainly because most of the assessments have been based on a control group methodology in a period where differences between IT and non-IT countries were insignificant. In this paper, we study IT impact over time and...