IT framework design parameters / prepared by Charles Freedman and Douglas Laxton.

This is the third chapter of a forthcoming monograph entitled ""On Implementing Full-Fledged Inflation-Targeting Regimes: Saying What You Do and Doing What You Say."" It examines a number of elements in the design of an inflation-targeting framework. These include the definition...

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Main Authors: Freedman, Charles (Author), Laxton, Douglas (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Department
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2009.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/09/87.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction; II. Definition of the Target Variable; III. Core Inflation; IV. Point Target, Point Target with Band, and Range Target; Figures; 1. UK Inflation Expectations 10 Years Ahead; V. Choice of Long-Term Inflation Rate; VI. Target Horizon; VII. Loss Function and Policy Horizon; 2. Responses to Unfavorable and Favorable Supply Shocks (Positive Shock Circle; Negative Shock Triangle); References