Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
1 What Is the Fuss All About? 1 -- What Is Inflation Targeting? 5 -- What Are the Issues? 8 -- Plan of the Book 11 -- Appendix 1.1 Monetary Policy Regimes 13 -- 2 Attraction of Inflation Targeting 17 -- Intellectual Origins 17 -- Choosing an Inflation-Targeting Framework 38 -- 3 Inflating Targeting in Practice 47 -- Necessary Preconditions 48 -- What the Skeptics Say 55 -- The Framework in Practice: Four Principal Elements 60 -- Actual and Potential Inflation Targeters 67 -- Empirical Investigations 71 -- 4 Inflation Targeting and the Group of Three 99 -- Individual Adoption 100 -- Joint Adoption 159 -- 5 Exchange Rate Regimes, Policies, and Practices 165 -- Performance of Exchange Rates under Inflation Targeting 167 -- Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Regimes 177 -- Inflation Targeting and Exchange Market Operations 181 -- The "Fear of Flating" 185 -- 6 International Financial Architecture 191 -- Prevention and Management of Crises 191 -- IMF Adjustment Programs 196 -- 7 Challenges and Opportunities 205 -- Inflation Targeting by the G3 209 -- Is Inflation Targeting Broadly Applicable? 211 -- Implications for Exchange Rate Policies 213 -- Implications for the International Financial Architecture 214 -- Recommendations 215 -- Table 2.1 Average rates of CPI inflation and growth rates of real GDP, 1990-2002 21 -- Table 2.2 Inflation variability and inflation in industrial countries over three decades 24 -- Table 2.3 Countries with inflation-targeting monetary policy frameworks 29 -- Table 2.4 Factors associated with a country's choice of inflation targeting 40 -- Table 3.1 Overview of inflation-targeting frameworks 61 -- Table 3.2 Evaluation in inflation-targeting frameworks 67 -- Table 3.3 Categorization of inflation targeters, based on inflation rates 69 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index |
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Subject |
Anti-inflationary policies.
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Monetary policy.
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International finance.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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Anti-inflationary policies
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International finance
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Monetary policy
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Inflationspolitik
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Internationale Finanzpolitik
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Geldpolitik
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Inflationsrate
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Festsetzung
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Inflatie.
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Monetaire politiek.
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Schwellenländer
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2003061260 |
ISBN |
9781435682764 |
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1435682769 |
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6611790985 |
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9786611790981 |
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9780881324501 |
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0881324507 |
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