Download or read book Inflation Targeting Under Potential Output Uncertainty written by Victor Gaiduch and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of sustainable productive capacity is playing an increasingly important role in monetary policy formulation throughout the world. Specifying price stability as a central objective of monetary policy has contributed to this increased importance. The long lags between policy actions and inflation outcomes mean that indicators of future inflation pressures must be relied on to guide current policy actions that are aimed at achieving price stability. The extent to which an economy's productive resources are being utilized is considered to be a useful indicator of future price pressures. Whether productive resources are defined in terms of the goods market (potential output) or the labor market (trend unemployment), policymakers rely on estimates of these concepts to determine whether current levels of activity can be sustained without generating price pressures. If activity is deemed to be above a sustainable level, policymakers may suspect that upward pressure on inflation will emerge if they do not take actions to moderate activity. Conversely, if current activity is below the sustainable level this may lead policymakers to stimulate activity to avoid future downward pressure on inflation.