Posted

May 26, 2014 08:20:20 AM

Date

2014-03

Author

Thomas Barnebeck Andersen, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, and Jens Nordvig

Affiliation

CEPS

Title

Inflation-Targeting, Flexible Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Performance since the Great Recession

Summary /
Abstract

Has inflation targeting (IT) conferred benefits in terms of economic growth on countries that followed this particular monetary policy strategy during the crisis period 2007-12? This paper answers this question in the affirmative. Countries with an IT monetary regime with flexible exchange rates weathered the crisis much better than countries with other monetary regimes, predominantly countries with fixed exchange rates. Part of this difference in growth performance reflects differences in export performance during the initial years of the crisis, which in turn can be explained by real exchange rate depreciations. However, IT seems also to confer other benefits on the countries above and beyond the effects from currency depreciation.

Keywords

Inflation targeting, flexible exchange rates, economic growth, Great Recession

URL

http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eps:cepswp:9116&r=cba

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