Comment: In defence of inflation targeting

Central Banking staff
05 Jun 2006

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Writing in the Financial Times this week, Wolfgang Munchau suggests that the "end of inflation targeting is in sight". Munchau points to the shortcomings of the Swedish inflation targetting regime, and draws universal lessons from it. A number of objections to Munchau's analysis could be raised.

COMMENT BY CENTRALBANKNEWS

Until recently - and for more than two years before it - annual CPI inflation persistently undershot the lower band of the Riksbank's target of 1%. Munchau correctly points

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