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Author Truman, Edwin M.

Title Inflation targeting in the world economy / Edwin M. Truman
Published Washington, DC : Institute for International Econommics, 2003

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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.
Monetary policy.
International finance.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
Anti-inflationary policies
International finance
Monetary policy
Inflationspolitik
Internationale Finanzpolitik
Geldpolitik
Inflationsrate
Festsetzung
Inflatie.
Monetaire politiek.
Schwellenländer
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003061260
ISBN 9781435682764
1435682769
6611790985
9786611790981
9780881324501
0881324507