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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788331403321

Autore

Miao Yanliang

Titolo

In Search of Successful Inflation Targeting : : Evidence From An Inflation Targeting Index / / Yanliang Miao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-2247-6

1-4518-7295-X

1-282-84362-1

9786612843624

1-4519-9533-4

Descrizione fisica

35 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Inflation targeting

Monetary policy

Banks and Banking

Inflation

Money and Monetary Policy

Public Finance

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Monetary Policy

Central Banks and Their Policies

Price Level

Deflation

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Macroeconomics

Monetary economics

Banking

Public finance & taxation

Disinflation

Central bank autonomy

Prices

Central banks

Institutional arrangements for revenue administration



Revenue administration

Banks and banking

Revenue

New Zealand

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

In a first attempt to treat inflation targeting (IT) as a continuous variable, we construct IT subindices for 21 full-fledged ITers on three dimensions: flexibility, transparency, and explicitness. Comparing flexibility and transparency we find that (1) the impact of flexibility on both the mean and variation of inflation is more quadratic than that of transparency; (2) after adding the transparency index, the impact of flexibility is no longer significant. The significant and negative association between transparency and the level and variation of inflation is confirmed when we check for robustness by controlling for disinflation stage, subsampling, instrumental variable estimation, and principal component analysis (PCA).