Hitting the elusive inflation target

dc.contributor.authorBIANCHI, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorMELOSI, Leonardo
dc.contributor.authorROTTNER, Matthias Christian
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-31T09:33:18Z
dc.date.available2021-05-31T09:33:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractSince the 2001 recession, average core inflation has been below the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. This deflationary bias is a predictable consequence of the current symmetric monetary policy strategy that fails to recognize the risk of encountering the zero-lower-bound. An asymmetric rule according to which the central bank responds less aggressively to above-target inflation corrects the bias, improves welfare, and reduces the risk of deflationary spirals—a pathological situation in which inflation keeps falling indefinitely. This approach does not entail any history dependence or commitment to overshoot the inflation target and can be implemented with an asymmetric target range.en
dc.identifier.doi10.3386/w26279
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/71498
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dc.publisherNational Bureau of Economic Researchen
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dc.relation.ispartofseries2019/26279en
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dc.relation.urihttps://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26279/w26279.pdfen
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dc.subjectE51en
dc.subjectE62en
dc.subjectE63en
dc.titleHitting the elusive inflation targeten
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