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Current Issues in the Design and Conduct of Monetary Policy

By Mohsin S. Khan

March 1, 2003

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Mohsin S. Khan Current Issues in the Design and Conduct of Monetary Policy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

Movements in global capital during the late 1990s and the greater emphasis on price stability led many countries to abandon fixed exchange rate regimes and to design institutions and monetary policies to achieve credibility in the goal of lowering inflation. Such recent developments have brought to the forefront the idea that freely mobile capital, independent monetary policy, and fixed exchange rates form an "impossible trinity." It is possible to have two of these policies, but not all three. Inflation-targeting regimes being adopted by many countries provide a way of resolving this dilemma.

Subject: Banking, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Monetary aggregates, Monetary policy, Money, Prices

Keywords: Africa, Central bank, Country, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Global, Government, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Inflation targeting approach, Inflation targeting country, Inflation targeting framework, Inflation-targeting strategy, Managed exchange rate regime, Monetary aggregates, Monetary policy, Monetary policy objective, Monetary policy target, Rules versus discretion, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    18

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2003/056

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0562003

  • ISBN:

    9781451847727

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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