IMF Working Papers

Issues Concerning Nominal Anchors for Monetary Policy

By Michael Mussa, Robert P Flood

May 1, 1994

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Michael Mussa, and Robert P Flood. Issues Concerning Nominal Anchors for Monetary Policy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

This paper presents a selective survey of issues relevant to the choice of nominal anchors for monetary policy. Section I reviews long price-level histories for the United Kingdom and United States, which reveal that the price level behaved very differently following WWII in these countries than it had done in previous post-war experiences. In particular following WWII the responsibilities of monetary policy expanded to encompass a business- cycle stabilization role and the nominal anchor shifted from the fixed anchor or price-level stability to the moving anchor of inflation-rate stability. The remaining sections of the paper review some of the considerations that are relevant to setting the average inflation rate in countries without a fixed nominal anchor.

Subject: Conventional peg, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Monetary policy, Nominal anchors, Prices

Keywords: Conventional peg, Economic system, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Inflation, Inflation rate, Inflation standard, Monetary policy, Nominal anchors, Paper money, Price level, Price-level result, Rate of inflation, United States price level, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    41

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1994/061

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0611994

  • ISBN:

    9781451848106

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Reviews long price-level histories for the United Kingdom and United States.

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