International audienceThe aim of the present paper is to provide criteria for a central bank of how to chooseamong different monetary-policy rules when caring about a number of policy targetssuch as the output gap and expected inflation. Special attention is given to the questionif policy instruments are predetermined or only forward looking. Using the new-Keynesian Phillips curve with a cost-push-shock policy-transmission mechanism, theforward-looking case implies an extreme lack of robustness and of credibility of stabi-lization policy. The backward-looking case is such that the simple-rule parameters canbe the solution of Ramsey optimal policy under limited commitment. As a conse-quence, we suggest to model...