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Inflation Targeting in Practice: Strategic and Operational Issues and Application to Emerging Market Economies

Seminar held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 3-5, 1999

Chapter

1. Introduction and Overview (56 K pdf file)
   Mario I. Blejer and Alfredo M. Leone

2. Maintaining Low Inflation: Rationale and Reality (55 K pdf file)
   Mervin Goodfriend

3. Strategic Choices in Inflation Targeting: The New Zealand Experience (91 K pdf file)
   Murray Sherwin

4. Inflation Forecast Targeting: The Swedish Experience (83 K pdf file)
   Claes Berg

5. The Canadian Monetary Transmission Mechanism and Inflation Projections (67 K pdf file)
   David Longworth

6. Inflation Targeting and Output Stabilization in Australia (70 K pdf file)
   Guy Debelle

7. Targeting Inflation: The United Kingdom in Retrospect (46 K pdf file)
   Andrew Haldane

8. Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting in Chile (96 K pdf file)
   Felipe Morandé and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

9. Inflation Targeting Under a Crawling Band Exchange Rate Regime: Lessons from Israel (83 K pdf file)
   Leonardo Leiderman and Gil Bufman

10. Mexico's Monetary Policy Framework Under a Floating Exchange Rate Regime (55 K pdf file)
    Agustín G. Carstens and Alejandro M. Werner

11. Issues in the Adoption of an Inflation Targeting Framework in Brazil (58 K pdf file)
    Research Department, Central Bank of Brazil