Inflation targeting and the sacrifice ratio

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Neste artigo mostramos que os países que adotaram o regime de Metas de Inflação (IT) lograram desinflar suas economias com menores custso. 0 efeito da dummy IT é estatística e economicamente bem significativo. Ao reduzir significativamente os custos das desinflaç ões, este sistema pode tornar níveis mais baixos de inflação politicamente mais factíveis. In this paper we show that economies that adopted the inflation targeting (IT) regime have been able to "disinflate" less costly. The effect of IT on the sacrifice ratio is not only statistically significant, but also economically very important. This result is all the more interesting given the lack of robust empirical evidence in favor of IT. By significantly reducing the short-run costs of disinflation, IT may render the attainability of lower inflation levels politically more feasible.

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Gonçalves, C. E. S., & Carvalho, A. (2008). Inflation targeting and the sacrifice ratio. Revista Brasileira de Economia, 62(2), 177–188. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-71402008000200003

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