{ "title": "High-Level Seminar: Implementing Inflation Targets", "publication": "IMF Seminars, January 1, 1901", "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/ar/news/seminars/conferences/2016/12/31/high-level-seminar-implementing-inflation-targets", "canonical": "https://www.imf.org/ar/news/seminars/conferences/2016/12/31/high-level-seminar-implementing-inflation-targets", "overlayPath": "/ar/news/seminars/conferences/2016/12/31/high-level-seminar-implementing-inflation-targets/index.md", "summary": "$name مؤتمر صندوق النقد الدولي Conference Agenda Speakers and Discussants conference@imf.", "publishDate": "0001-01-01", "sections": [ { "heading": "Overview", "content": "- Event: High-Level Seminar: Implementing Inflation Targets\n- Sponsored by: the IMF Institute\n- Venue: IMF Headquarters, Washington, D.C., Multipurpose Room, B-702\n- Dates: March 20-21, 2000\n- Participation: by invitation only\n- Focus: issues arising from the change in monetary policy objectives toward inflation targeting following the high-inflation years of the late 1970s and early 1980s and the subsequent period of relative price stability" }, { "heading": "Objectives and Themes", "content": "- Examine the type of reforms countries need before establishing an inflation targeting framework\n- Analyze appropriate monetary policy under monetary and inflation targeting\n- Review specific country experiences with inflation targeting and transitions to inflation targeting" }, { "heading": "Countries and Experiences Covered", "content": "- Canada\n- Israel\n- New Zealand\n- United Kingdom\n- Mexico (current transition to an inflation-targeting framework)\n- Brazil (current transition to an inflation-targeting framework)" }, { "heading": "Agenda (selected sessions and timings)", "content": "- Monday, March 20\n - 9:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. — Welcoming Remarks: Mohsin S. Khan (IMF)\n - 9:15 a.m.-9:45 a.m. — Opening Remarks: Stanley Fischer (IMF)\n - 10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m. — Monetary Rules\n - Chair: Michael Mussa\n - Speaker: Bennett McCallum (Carnegie-Mellon University)\n - Discussant: Vincent Reinhart (Federal Reserve Board)\n - Materials: Monetary Rules (180 k pdf file); Background Paper: Theoretical Analysis Regarding a Zero Lower Bound on Nominal Interest Rates (180 k pdf file)\n - 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Monetary Policy Under Inflation Targeting\n - Speaker: Lars Svensson (Stockholm University)\n - Discussant: Timothy Lane (IMF)\n - 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. — Inflation Targeting in Canada\n - Chair: Tomás Baliño (IMF)\n - Speaker: Charles Freedman (Bank of Canada)\n - 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. — Inflation Targeting in New Zealand\n - Speaker: David Archer (Reserve Bank of New Zealand)\n - 4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m. — Inflation Targeting in the United Kingdom\n - Chair: Mohsin Khan (IMF)\n - Speaker: Andrew Haldane (Bank of England)\n - Materials: (71 k pdf file); Background Paper: Targeting Inflation: The UK in Retrospect (46 k pdf file)\n- Tuesday, March 21\n - 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. — Inflation Targeting in Israel\n - Chair: Peter Montiel (IMF)\n - Speaker: Leonardo Leiderman (Bank of Israel and Tel Aviv University)\n - Background Paper: Inflation Targeting Under a Crawling Band Exchange Rate Regime: Lessons from Israel (422 k pdf file)\n - 10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. — Inflation Targeting in Mexico\n - Chair: Claudio Loser (IMF)\n - Speakers: Agustin Carstens (IMF); Alejandro Werner (Bank of Mexico)\n - Background Paper: Mexico's Monetary Policy Framework Under a Floating Exchange Rate Regime (422 k pdf file)\n - 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. — Inflation Targeting in Brazil\n - Speaker: Sérgio Werlang (Central Bank of Brazil)\n - Background Paper: Issues in the Adoption of an Inflation Targeting Framework in Brazil (433 k pdf file)\n - 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. — Conclusions on Inflation Targeting\n - 12:45 p.m.-1:00 p.m. — Closing Remarks; Presentation by Eduardo Aninat (IMF)" }, { "heading": "Materials and Publications", "content": "- Conference papers and brief biographical information on each participant were to be posted as they became available; papers noted as draft and unedited\n- Book available on the topic: Inflation Targeting in Practice: Strategic and Operational Issues and Application to Emerging Market Economies, edited by Mario I. 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