Inflation targeting: What inflation rate to target?

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1435-1462

  Huang, Kevin X D ^a,b   Liu, Zheng ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b CIRPÉE ^*  (Canada)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CPI; Implementation; Inflation targeting; Optimal monetary policy; PPI; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 29444439456     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2004.08.008     Document Type: Article

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