Pioneering Price Level Targeting: The Swedish Experience 1931-1937

C. Berg and Lars Jonung ()

Working Papers from Stockholm - International Economic Studies

Abstract: In September 1931, Sweden became the first country to make the stabilization of the domestic price level the official goal of its monetary policy, actually the only country that so far has adopted such an explicit price level target. Starting from the issues and concepts familiar from research and policy experience in the 1990s of inflation targeting -as contrasted to price level targeting- this paper examines the evolution of the Swedish price level targeting in the 1930s. We bring out a number of similarities and differences between price stabilization in the 1930s and in the 1990s.

Keywords: SWEDEN; HISTORY; INFLATION; MONETARY POLICY INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC STUDIES, S-106 91 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN. 50p. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E42 E52 N1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Working Paper: Pioneering Price Level Targeting: The Swedish Experience 1931-1937 (1998)
Working Paper: Pioneering Price Level Targeting:The Swedish Experience 1931-1937 (1998)
Journal Article: Pioneering price level targeting: The Swedish experience 1931-1937 (1999)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fth:stocin:642

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Stockholm - International Economic Studies
Address: UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM, INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC STUDIES, S- 106 91 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Thomas Krichel ().