Abstract:

Following the petrol shocks and the collapse of Bretton Woods System in 1970s, the problems of high inflation and unemployement had caused the Keynesian Policies be deserted all over the world. The developments indicated above made achieving of price stability as the main goal of monetary policy and pushed monetary autorities to search new policies. As a result of these efforts, some strategies like exchange rate targeting, monetary stock targeting and gross national product targeting have been implemented by the monetary authorities in many countries. After the first implementation of inflation targeting by the New Zeland’s Monetary Authority in 1990, this issue has been perceived as an alternative strategy for monetary policies and become a debatable question. The aim of this study is to define the inflation targeting strategy which has been put into practise by many countries following New Zeland’s experience on its theoric basis, and to discuss applicability of this strategy in Turkish economy

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