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The Inflation Targeting Framework in Norway

By Jarkko Soikkeli

November 1, 2002

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Jarkko Soikkeli. The Inflation Targeting Framework in Norway, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed December 26, 2024
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Norway adopted an inflation targeting framework in early 2001, thus concluding its gradual but consistent move toward greater exchange rate flexibility. This paper assesses the institutional and technical design of the framework, as well as its potential implications for the practical implementation of monetary policy against the experience from selected industrial countries that had adopted inflation targeting frameworks prior to Norway. Norway's role as a commodity exporter exposed to large terms of trade shocks, and the possible consequences of newly introduced fiscal guidelines are also discussed.

Subject: Banking, Consumer price indexes, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Monetary policy, Price stabilization, Prices

Keywords: Consumer price index, Consumer price indexes, CPI-inflation-targeting framework, Europe, Exchange rates, Inflation, Inflation expectation, Inflation outlook, Inflation rate, Inflation target, Inflation targeting, Inflation targeting framework, Inflation-targeting central bank, Managed float, Monetary policy, Monetary policy bias, Monetary policy guideline, Monetary policy instrument, Monetary policy tool, Nominal exchange rate, Output gap, Policy bias, Price stabilization, Way monetary policy, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    29

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2002/184

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1842002

  • ISBN:

    9781451859379

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941