Credibility and monetary policy under inflation targeting

mhamdi, ghrissi and aguir, abdelkader and farhani, ramzi (2015): Credibility and monetary policy under inflation targeting. Published in: International Journal of Business Economics and Management , Vol. 2, No. 3 (22 April 2015): pp. 78-90.

Abstract

After more than two decades of inflation targeting in the world, it is important to evaluate if the adoption of this regime in a relevant developing country contributed to the creation of a better environment for the process of entrepreneurs' expectations formation. Brazil is part of an important group of developing countries and represents a potential laboratory experiment in which the effects of an adoption of inflation targeting after more than a decade can be evaluated. Not enough is known about the consequences of inflation targeting credibility on both monetary policy and monetary policy transmission channels in developing countries that adopted inflation targeting. Emphasizing the role of transparency and the credibility of monetary policy as a performance criterion that motivate any country wishing to adopt an inflation targeting regime, this study leads to the fact that these two basic principles toward which a inflation targeting regime cannot be achieved without respect for certain pre namely institutional and technical conditions

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Credibility, Inflation targeting, Investment, Employment, Central bank, Interest rate.
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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