Monetary policies and inflation targeting in emerging economies

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Several emerging-market economies have adopted inflation targeting as their institutional framework for conducting monetary policy. This volume focuses on the experiences of Brazil, Chile, Czech Republic, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey.

The current volume is based on the proceedings of a conference, Seminar on Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets, organised by the Economics Department of the OECD and the Bank of England's Centre for Central Banking Studies.

Contents                                                                                                                             

 

Chapter 1: Monetary policy and macroeconomic stability in Latin America: The cases of Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico

Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero use a conventional New Keynesian model to empirically test whether adoption of inflation targeting in a flexible exchange rate regime has affected macroeconomic volatility in four Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.

 

Chapter 2: Brazil: Taming inflation expectations

Afonso Bevilaqua, Mário Mesquita and André Minella discuss the conduct of monetary policy in Brazil. Their econometric analysis underscores the critical role played by the inflation targets as “attractors” for expectations.

 

Chapter 3: Inflation targeting in Chile: Experience and selected issues

Rodrigo Valdés discusses the Chilean experience with inflation targeting. He highlights a number of institutional characteristics of the Chilean regime that have contributed to, or acted as a pre requisite for, a good track record of inflation control.

 

Chapter 4: The Czech Republic’s inflation targeting experience

Kateřina Šmídková discusses the experience of the Czech Republic with inflation targeting. She argues that an important feature of the Czech regime is the need to build an exit strategy into the policy framework, given the country’s expected entry into the euro zone.

 

Chapter 5: Monetary policy in emerging markets: The case of Indonesia

Hartadi Sarwono discusses the Indonesian experience with inflation targeting. He emphasises rapid structural changes in post crisis Indonesia as an important feature of the country’s monetary regime.

 

Chapter 6: South Africa’s experience with monetary policy within an inflation targeting policy framework

Monde Mnyande discussed the South African experience with inflation targeting. He argues that monetary policy has become more forward looking following the introduction of inflation targeting.


Chapter 7: From exchange rate stabilisation to inflation targeting: Turkey’s quest for price stability
Gülbin Şahinbeyoğlu discusses the experience of Turkey with inflation targeting. She focuses on the successes and challenges the monetary authorities were confronted with within this new policy regime.
 

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