A Model for Full-Fledged Inflation Targeting and Application to Ghana

By Kevin Clinton, Jihad Dagher, Ondrej Kamenik, Douglas Laxton, Ali Alichi, Marshall Mills

January 1, 2010

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Kevin Clinton, Jihad Dagher, Ondrej Kamenik, Douglas Laxton, Ali Alichi, and Marshall Mills. A Model for Full-Fledged Inflation Targeting and Application to Ghana, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

A model in which monetary policy pursues full-fledged inflation targeting adapts well to Ghana. Model features include: endogenous policy credibility; non-linearities in the inflation process; and a policy loss function that aims to minimize the variability of output and the interest rate, as well as deviations of inflation from the long-term low-inflation target. The optimal approach from initial high inflation to the ultimate target is gradual; and transitional inflation-reduction objectives are flexible. Over time, as policy earns credibility, expectations of inflation converge towards the long-run target, the output-inflation variability tradeoff improves, and optimal policy responses to shocks moderate.

Subject: Central bank policy rate, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Output gap, Supply shocks

Keywords: Interest rate, Monetary policy, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

30
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2010/025
Stock No:

WPIEA2010025
ISBN:

9781451962444
ISSN:

1018-5941

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