Policy Trade-off: Inflation Targeting vs. Exchange Rate Control
When a central bank adopts an inflation-targeting framework, it dedicates its primary tool—the policy interest rate—to managing inflation. This commitment means the policy rate cannot simultaneously be used to target a specific value for the exchange rate. As a result, a country with this framework effectively chooses to control its domestic monetary policy at the expense of controlling its exchange rate, which is then left to be determined by market forces.
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