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The Optimal Rate of Inflation

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe

出版	Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XoCK0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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Abstract: Observed inflation targets around the industrial world are concentrated at two percent per year. This chapter investigates the extent to which the observed magnitudes of inflation targets are consistent with the optimal rate of inflation predicted by leading theories of monetary nonneutrality. We find that consistently those theories imply that the optimal rate of inflation ranges from minus the real rate of interest to numbers insignificantly above zero. Furthermore, we argue that the zero bound on nominal interest rates does not represent an impediment for setting inflation targets near or below zero.