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Norway’s Road to Inflation Targeting: Overcoming the Fear of Floating

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  • Øyvind Eitrheim

    (Norges Bank)

  • Jan Fredrik Qvigstad

    (Norges Bank)

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We review developments in monetary policy and exchange rate regimes in Norway since the Bretton Woods system collapsed. Norway has traditionally had a monetary policy regime geared towards exchange rate stability. The long history with fixed exchange rates as "normalcy" may be one factor which explains the rather late transition to inflation targeting in Norway. This "fear of floating" may seem hard to explain today. We look at five episodes, in 1992, 1998, 2008, 2014 and 2020, respectively, through the lens of the prevailing monetary regime in real-time. What if we had reacted "as if" under the opposite regime?

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  • Øyvind Eitrheim & Jan Fredrik Qvigstad, 2024. "Norway’s Road to Inflation Targeting: Overcoming the Fear of Floating," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 66(3), pages 482-534, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:compes:v:66:y:2024:i:3:d:10.1057_s41294-024-00241-1
    DOI: 10.1057/s41294-024-00241-1
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    Keywords

    Monetary policy; Exchange rate regime; Central banks;
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    JEL classification:

    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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