Price Stability and Financial Fragility

Charles A. E. Goodhart
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Charles A. E. Goodhart: London School of Economics and Political Science

Chapter 10 in Financial Stability in a Changing Environment, 1995, pp 439-509 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract If asked to provide a practical, quantitative definition of price stability, most people would offer something like a rate of increase in the RPI, or the GDP deflator, of 0–2 percent. This is the kind of numerical objective which those Central Banks with a direct inflation target, e.g. New Zealand and Canada, are aiming to achieve. While I have great sympathy for such an approach, I want to start by arguing that the standard measures of inflation used in such targets may be incorrect, at least in principle. Such measures concentrate on current service flow prices, and ignore future service flow prices, changes in which are indicated by changing interest rates and asset prices. This thesis was cogently argued by Alchian and Klein in a paper in 1973; they put the case so well then, that I felt that I could do no better than repeat it. So, much of Section II consists of selections from their earlier work.

Keywords: Monetary Policy; Host Country; Central Bank; Asset Price; Real Interest Rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13352-9_11

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