Arbeitspapier

Money growth targeting: Conference on Monetary Policy Rules, Stockholm 12 - 12 June 1998

The recent debate over monetary policy strategies concludes that monetary targeting and inflation targeting in practice lead to very similar patterns of central bank behavior. This raises the question why central banks insist on the strategies they use. In this paper, we develop an answer from political economy. After showing that closed-loop monetary strategies using similar information sets imply similar monetary policy performance, we argue that monetary strategies are helpful in solving internal and external coordination problems for the central bank. We illustrate the point by reviewing the Bundesbank's introduction of monetary targeting in the mid- 1970s. Monetary targeting was important for the Bank as a signal that the previous monetary regime had been overcome, as a means to define the role of monetary policy vis-a-vis other players in the macro economic policy game, and to structure the internal monetary policy debate. The last section discusses the implications of this view for the new European Central Bank.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series ; No. 59

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
von Hagen, Jürgen
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Sveriges Riksbank
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
1998

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • von Hagen, Jürgen
  • Sveriges Riksbank

Entstanden

  • 1998

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