{ "title": "$name", "publication": "IMF Seminars, January 1, 1901", "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/es/news/seminars/conferences/2016/12/31/high-level-seminar-implementing-inflation-targets", "canonical": "https://www.imf.org/es/news/seminars/conferences/2016/12/31/high-level-seminar-implementing-inflation-targets", "overlayPath": "/es/news/seminars/conferences/2016/12/31/high-level-seminar-implementing-inflation-targets/index.md", "summary": "$name CONFERENCIA DEL FMI 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: Participation by invitation only.\n- Context: Following the widespread high-inflation years of the late 1970 s and early 1980 s, the world entered a period of relative price stability. The trend toward lower inflation is partly a consequence of the adoption of inflation targets by a number of central banks, first in industrial countries and more recently in developing countries." }, { "heading": "Themes and issues examined", "content": "- Reforms required before establishing an inflation targeting framework.\n- Appropriate monetary policy under monetary and inflation targeting.\n- Country-specific experiences with inflation targeting:\n - Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.\n - Transition experiences of Mexico and Brazil toward an inflation-targeting framework.\n- Strategic and operational issues in inflation targeting, including application to emerging market economies." }, { "heading": "Conference agenda and sessions (selected)", "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: \"Inflation Targeting in the United Kingdom\" (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 - Materials: \"Inflation Targeting in Israel\" (422 k pdf file); Background Paper: \"Inflation Targeting Under a Crawling Band Exchange Rate Regime: Lessons from Israel\".\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 outputs", "content": "- Conference papers and brief biographical information on each participant to be posted as they become available; conference papers are in draft and unedited.\n- A 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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