Money Growth, Output Gaps and Inflation at Low and High Frequency: Spectral Estimates for Switzerland

Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche () and Stefan Gerlach ()

No 2006-5, Working Papers from Swiss National Bank

Abstract: While monetary targeting has become increasingly rare, many central banks attach weight to money growth in setting interest rates. This raises the issue of how money can be combined with other variables, in particular the output gap, when analysing inflation. The Swiss National Bank emphasises that the indicators it uses to do so vary across forecasting horizons. While real indicators are employed for short-run forecasts, money growth is more important at longer horizons. Using band spectral regressions and causality tests in the frequency domain, we show that this interpretation of the inflation process fits the data well.

Keywords: spectral regression; frequency domain; Phillips curve; quantity theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 E30 E50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2006-03-31

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Working Paper: Money Growth, Output Gaps and Inflation at Low and High Frequency: Spectral Estimates for Switzerland (2006)
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