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

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 contr...

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Institutionell upphovsman: International Monetary Fund
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/089
Länkar:Full text available on IMF