Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244540 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 8/2018
Publisher: 
Örebro University School of Business, Örebro
Abstract: 
Inflation targets come in different shapes and sizes. We explore the choice of a point or band target for inflation in a stylised economy in which agents learn about the inflation-generating process. We simulate under two conditions, namely i) a point inflation target and ii) a band inflation target from within which the central bank chooses its current spe-cific target. In many parameterizations of the model, the preferred target type rests on the inflation-output stabilization preferences of the central bank. A band target tends to be associated with higher volatility of inflation and lower volatility of the output gap than a point target. As such, a very strong preference for output stabilisation speaks in favour of a band inflation target.With preferences for inflation stabilisation closer to those thought to prevail in practice, a point target almost always outperforms a band target.
Subjects: 
Inflation targeting
Learning
Constant gain least squares
JEL: 
E52
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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