BoE's King on monetary policy practice and theory

In a speech on 'Monetary policy: Practice ahead of theory' given on 17 May, Mervyn King of the Bank of England put forward his views on the virtues of an inflation targeting regime, attributing economic stability in the UK over the last decade to its success.

Mervyn King suggested that one of the great advantages of an inflation targeting regime was its blending of a rule-based regime with a certain amount of discretion. A pure rule based system, he said, could not be desirable or credible

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