What Measure of Inflation Should a Developing Country Central Bank Target? /

In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We analyze this result in the context of developing economies, where a large proportion of households are credit constrained and...

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Päätekijä: Anand, Rahul
Muut tekijät: Prasad, Eswar, Zhang, Boyang
Aineistotyyppi: Aikakauslehti
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Sarja:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/205
Linkit:Full text available on IMF
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