Nigeria's Transition to Full-Fledged Inflation Targeting: Insights from Ghana’s Monetary Policy Frameworks

Bello Dalhatu
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Bello Dalhatu: Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

Financial Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 3, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: In an effort to provide policy recommendations for Nigeria's transition to full-fledged inflation targeting, this study examines Ghana's monetary policy frameworks (monetary aggregates targeting and inflation targeting) using ARDL bounds test for cointegration and Error Correction Mechanism (ECM) on annual time series data spanning 1965 to 2022 obtained from the Bank of Ghana database and the World Bank database on World Development Indicators. The results demonstrate that monetary aggregates targeting has not been successful in both the short-run and long-run periods in moderating and stabilizing inflation; however, inflation moderated under inflation targeting in both the short run and the long term. This indicates that inflation targeting proves to be a superior monetary policy framework for inflation control.

Keywords: Monetary aggregates; Inflation targeting; Monetary policy; Ghana; Nigeria. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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