Inflation Targeting and Inflation Behavior: A Successful Story?

Marco Vega and Diego Winkelried

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Abstract: This paper estimates the effects of inflation targeting (IT) adoption over inflation dynamics using a wide control group. We contribute to the current IT evaluation literature by considering the adoption of IT by a country as a treatment, just as in the program evaluation literature. Hence, we perform propensity score matching to find suitable counterfactuals to the actual inflation targeters. We find out that IT has helped in reducing the level and volatility of inflation in the countries that adopted it. This result is robust to alternative definitions of treatment and control groups

JEL-codes: G0 G00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-06-17
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Published in International Journal of Central Banking Number 3.Volume(2005): pp. 153-175

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