Inflation Targeting in Brazil, Chile and South Africa: An Empirical Investigation of Their Monetary Policy Framework

Mona Kamal

No wp1004, William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Abstract: This paper tackles the monetary policy performance in Brazil, Chile and South Africa under inflation targeting framework. Furthermore, it provides an empirical assessment through using the unrestricted Vector Auto-regression (VAR) and Structural Vector Auto-regression (SVAR) approaches depending on data spans the period from the first quarter of 1970 to the fourth quarter of 2007. On the other hand, it utilizes the Likelihood Ratio (LR) Statistic to test for possible structural changes due to the adoption of inflation targeting regime in those countries. The main findings are as follows: inflation targeting does make a difference in the performance of monetary policy in those countries. Furthermore, the experience of Brazil, Chile and South Africa provides important lessons for other emerging market economies to adopt such a framework.

Keywords: Monetary policy; Vector Auto-regression (VAR); Structural Vector Auto-regression (SVAR) approach; Inflation Targeting Framework. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages
Date: 2010-11-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-cba, nep-lam, nep-mac and nep-mon
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