SPEECH - In the speech 'Conducting Monetary Policy' Edward Gramlich of the Federal Reserve discusses inflation targeting and says that a symmetrical target (e.g. Bank of England) is most successful as this allows expansionary responses to an inflation rate below target. Without symmetry (e.g. the ECB's model), he says, an inflation targeting regime has no way of dealing with either recession or deflation.

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