Inflation Targeting and Business Cycle Synchronization

47 Pages Posted: 26 Aug 2009

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Robert P. Flood

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department; CENTRUM Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Andrew Kenan Rose

University of California - Haas School of Business; NUS Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: July 2009

Abstract

Inflation targeting seems to have a small but positive effect on the synchronization of business cycles; countries that target inflation seem to have cycles that move slightly more closely with foreign cycles. Thus the advent of inflation targeting does not explain the decoupling of global business cycles, for two reasons. Indeed business cycles have not in fact become less synchronized across countries.

Keywords: bilateral, data, empirical, GDP, insulation, regime

JEL Classification: F42

Suggested Citation

Flood, Robert P. and Rose, Andrew Kenan and Rose, Andrew Kenan, Inflation Targeting and Business Cycle Synchronization (July 2009). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7377, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1462006

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