Exchange Rate Effects and Inflation Targeting in a Small Open Economy: A Stochastic Analysis Using Fps
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper No. G99/4
20 Pages Posted: 22 Oct 2002
Date Written: May 1998
Abstract
In this paper, stochastic simulations of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's new macroeconomic model, FPS, are used to examine the issue of which price index monetary policy should stabilise in a small open economy. Under the class of policy rules considered, targeting a measure of domestic inflation, which does not include the direct effects of exchange rate movements on the price of imported goods, results in lower variability in real output, nominal interest rates, the exchange rate and domestic price inflation. The result is robust if direct exchange rate effects influence agents' expectations of generalised inflation and if the policy maker is uncertain about how direct exchange rate effects influence expectations. Tracing out efficient policy frontiers under the two alternative targets illustrates that for a given level of CPI variability, output variability can be significantly reduced by targeting domestic price inflation.
JEL Classification: E52, E32, E37
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