Over the past fifteen years, a significant number of industrialized and middle-income countries have adopted inflation targeting as a framework for monetary pol

Since the financial crisis of 2008/09, the world’s major central banks have been struggling to return their economies to higher growth and to reach their infl

How should governments and central banks use monetary policy to create a healthy economy? Traditionally, policymakers have used such strategies as controlling t

This paper asks whether inflation targeting improves economic performance, as measured by the behavior of inflation, output, and interest rates. We compare seve

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