A Stable International Monetary System Emerges

Inflation Targeting is Bretton Woods, Reversed

A Stable International Monetary System Emerge...
Andrew K.. Rose, National Bure...
A Stable International Monetary System Emerges by Andrew K.. Rose, National Bureau of Economic Research, Andrew K.. Rose, National Bureau of Economic Research
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A Stable International Monetary System Emerges

Inflation Targeting is Bretton Woods, Reversed

A stable international monetary system has emerged since the early 1990s. A large number of industrial and a growing number of developing countries now have domestic inflation targets administered by independent and transparent central banks. These countries place few restrictions on capital mobility and allow their exchange rates to float. The domestic focus of monetary policy in these countries does not have any obvious international cost. Inflation targeters have lower exchange rate volatility and less frequent "sudden stops" of capital flows than similar countries that do not target inflation. Inflation targeting countries also do not have current accounts or international reserves that look different from other countries. This system was not planned and does not rely on international coordination. There is no role for a center country, the IMF, or gold. It is durable; in contrast to other monetary regimes, no country has been forced to abandon an inflation-targeting regime. Succinctly, it is the diametric opposite of the post-war system; Bretton Woods, reversed.

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A Stable International Monetary System Emerges: Inflation Targeting is Bretton Woods, Reversed
2006, National Bureau of Economic Research
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