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This study reviews the literature on the contribution of low inflation to economic growth and the subsequent widespread adoption of inflation targeting as a monetary policy framework. Edwin Truman addresses the challenges and risks associated with such a framework. Building on these foundations, the study focuses on two major international economic policy issues: (1) the implications of differing national regimes of inflation targeting for international economic policy cooperation; and (2) the adoption of inflation targeting by emerging-market economies which often lack stable monetary policy environments and credible policy authorities—a situation which, among other things, can complicate the use of the inflation targeting framework as the basis for IMF-supported stabilization programs.

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. What Is the Fuss All About?

2. Attraction of Inflation Targeting

3. Inflational Targeting in Practice

4. Inflation Targeting and the Group of Three

5. Exchange Rate Regimes, Policies, and Practices

6. International Financial Architecture

7. Challenges and Opportunities

Appendix

References

Index