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Assessing progress toward price stability: looking forward and looking backward


Abstract: An examination of how to assess the inflationary effects of current monetary policy, reviewing the behavior of a selected measure of core inflation over the past decade and contrasting this pattern with the inflation expectations of both households and professional forecasters, concluding that such expectations are formed rationally.

Keywords: Inflation (Finance);

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Part of Series: Economic Commentary

Publication Date: 1994

Issue: May

Order Number: 2