Should central banks’ inflation targets be raised?

Is a target of 2% actually superior to one of 3% or 4%, for instance, or does it merely owe its exalted status to tradition? 

The relative damage done by extremely high or accelerating price growth may be easily visible, but economists have struggled to identify differences in the costs to an economy from different stable, low-single-digit inflation rates. 

If the costs of a slightly higher inflation target are small, the benefits are potentially sizeable. Chiefly, it could help central bankers avoid the so-called zero lower bound on nominal interest rates

The Economist 21 July 2022

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/07/21/should-central-banks-inflation-targets-be-raised


People’s inflation expectations are rising—and will be hard to bring down

The Economist 19 June 2022

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/06/19/peoples-inflation-expectations-are-rising-and-will-be-hard-to-bring-down


Amid a wide range of options, inflation targeting remains the simplest and least bad

Inflation targeting has been successful because it managed to anchor expectations — until it did not.

Did inflation targeting fail?  

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2021/03/amid-wide-range-of-options-inflation.html


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