Can Inflation Targeting Work in Emerging Market Countries?

Frederic Mishkin

No 10646, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper explores issues in emerging market countries to make inflation targeting work for them. It starts by outlining why emerging market economies are so different from advanced economies and then discuss why developing strong fiscal, financial and monetary institutions is so critical to the success of inflation targeting in emerging market countries. Then it discusses two emerging market countries which illustrate what it takes to make inflation targeting work well, Chile and Brazil. It then addresses a particularly complicated issue for central banks in emerging market countries who engage in inflation targeting: how they deal with exchange rate fluctuations. The next topic focuses on the IMF's role in promoting the success of inflation targeting in emerging market countries. The conclusion from this analysis is that inflation targeting is more complicated in emerging market countries and is thus not a panacea. However, inflation targeting done right can be a powerful tool to help promote macroeconomic stability in these countries.

JEL-codes: E5 F3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-07
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Published as Reinhart, Carmen, Carlos Vegh and Andres Velasco (eds.) A Festschrift for Guillermo Calvo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.

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