Inflation Targeting and Output Growth: Empirical Evidence for the European Union

May 1, 2005

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Inflation Targeting and Output Growth: Empirical Evidence for the European Union, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper evaluates the performance of two alternative policy rules, a forward-looking rule and a spontaneous adjustment rule, under alternative inflation targets, in terms of output losses in a macroeconomic model, using European Union data. The simulations suggest that forward-looking rules contribute to macroeconomic stability and monetary policy credibility, and that a positive inflation target, as opposed to zero inflation, leads to higher and less volatile output. These results are robust to changes in the specification of the model and time period. The same methodology applied to individual countries supports country-specific flexible inflation targeting.

Subject: Estimation techniques, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Output gap, Real interest rates

Keywords: Inflation rate, WP

Publication Details

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27
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Working Paper No. 2005/089
Stock No:

WPIEA2005089
ISBN:

9781451861082
ISSN:

1018-5941

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