Why Inflation Targeting? /

This is the second chapter of a forthcoming monograph entitled "On Implementing Full-Fledged Inflation-Targeting Regimes: Saying What You Do and Doing What You Say." We begin by discussing the costs of inflation, including their role in generating boom-bust cycles. Following a general disc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freedman, Charles
Other Authors: Laxton, Douglas
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/086
Online Access:Full text available on IMF