Inflation targeting in emerging economies: What do the data say?

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• 作者：Carlos Eduardo S. Gonç ; alves ; Joã ; o M. Salles
• 关键词：Inflation targeting ; Monetary policy
• 刊名：Journal of Development Economics
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：February 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：85
• 期：1-2
• 页码：312-318
• 全文大小：113 K

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In a recent thought-provoking paper, Ball and Sheridan [Ball, L., Sheridan, N., 2005. Does inflation targeting matter? In: Bernanke, B.S., Woodford, M. (Eds.), The Inflation-Targeting Debate, University of Chicago Press] show that the available evidence for a group of developed economies does not lend credence to the belief that adopting an inflation targeting regime (IT) was instrumental in bringing inflation and inflation volatility down. Here, we extend Ball and Sheridan's analysis for a subset of 36 emerging market economies and find that, for them, the story is quite different. Compared to non-targeters, developing countries adopting the IT regime not only experienced greater drops in inflation, but also in growth volatility, thus corroborating the view that the regime's “constrained flexibility” to deal with adverse shocks delivered concrete welfare gains.