Jim Granato (University of Texas, Austin), M. C. Sunny Wong (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi)
This book's central theme is that a policymaker's role is to enhance the public's ability to coordinate their price information, price expectations, and economic activities. This role is fulfilled when policymakers maintain inflation stability. Inflation persists less when an implicit or explicit inflation target is met. Granato and Wong argue that inflation persistence is reduced when the public substitutes the prespecified inflation target for past inflation. A by-product of this co-ordination process is greater economic stability. In particular, inflation stability contributes to greater...
This book's central theme is that a policymaker's role is to enhance the public's ability to coordinate their price information, price expectations, a...
