Effectiveness of Inflation Targeting Strategy in Times of Financial Instability in Emerging Countries

This paper aims to assess the effectiveness of inflation targeting policy in emerging economies during an economic crisis, particularly the 2007 financial and economic crisis. Thus, considering pre-crisis and crisis periods, an econometric model based on the difference-in-differences method (DID) was adopted. The sample consists of twelve inflation-targeting countries, the test group, and twelve non-targeting countries, the control group. The model was estimated using the EGLS method on panel data. The results show that inflation-targeting emerging countries have less control over prices during crisis than emerging countries without inflation-targeting policy.