Inflation-targeting rules: History-dependent or forward-looking?

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Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2008
Volume: 100
Issue: 2
Pages: 267-270

Authors (1)

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Abstract

This note discusses the inflation-targeting strategy if price setting gives rise to a hybrid Phillips curve. The strategy is inverted relative to private sector pricing behavior: if private sector price setting is backward-looking, policy should be forward-looking, and vice versa.

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repec:eee:ecolet:v:100:y:2008:i:2:p:267-270
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1
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2026-01-25