Petryk O. Inflation targeting as mechanism of price stability providing in Ukraine

The object is the process of attainment of price stability as an instrument of macroeconomic regulation in mature and emerging economies; the research objective is devel-opment of theoretical and methodological fundamentals for securing price stability in transition economies, setting up on this basis of institutional, legal and economic mecha-nisms for its sustaining through the IT introduction, devel-oping of methodological and practical recommendations on preparation and transition to the IT regime in Ukraine; methods - analysis and synthesis, scientific abstraction, structure functional analysis, system functional, statistical comparison, expert estimations, logical generalization and extrapolation, graphic and tabular, econometric. Theoreti-cal and practical results: theoretical and methodological approach was developed to research of mechanism of se-curing price stability in a transition economy; methodo-logical grounds were suggested for strategies of transition to the IT in Ukraine. Stage of introduction: the practical value of scientific, theoretical and methodical develop-ments of the research has been proven by their application in the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine (in course of prepa-ration of State Programs of economic and social develop-ment of Ukraine), Ministry of Finance of Ukraine (macro-economic forecast for 2000 - 2008 budgets), National Bank of Ukraine (draft medium term action plan on secur-ing price stability and Monetary Policy Fundamentals of the National Bank of Ukraine in 2004-2008), State Com-mittee of Statistics of Ukraine (in course of development of methodology for calculation of basic consumer price in-dex). Area, scope of application: the recommendations de-veloped in the course of research are intended for applica-tion in activities of the National Bank of Ukraine and in-troduction in the area of monetary policy.