Augmented inflation targeting: Le roi est mort, vive le roi

Baldwin, Richard,  Gros, Daniel. The Bank of Japan has now joined the club of central banks practising a new, post-Crisis form of inflation targeting. This column discusses the new goals, new tools and new challenges of  ‘augmented inflation targeting’. Despite economists’ worries and the many unknowns ahead, there really is no alternative in a post-Crisis world. […]