Taylor Rule and the Macroeconomic Performance in Pakistan

Wasim Malik () and Ather Maqsood Ahmed
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Ather Maqsood Ahmed: NUST Business School, Rawalpindi.

The Pakistan Development Review, 2010, vol. 49, issue 1, 37-56

Abstract: A near-consensus position in modern macroeconomics is that policy rules have greater advantage over discretion in improving economic performance. For developing countries in particular, simple instrument rules appear to be feasible options as prerequisites since more sophisticated targeting rules are generally lacking. Using Pakistan’s data, this study has attempted to estimate the Taylor rule and use it as monetary policy strategy to simulate the economy. Our results indicate that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has not been following the Taylor rule. In fact, the actual policy has been an extreme deviation from it. On the other hand, counterfactual simulation confirms that macroeconomic performance could have been better in terms of stability of inflation and output, had the Taylor rule been adopted as monetary policy strategy. The study also establishes that further gains are possible if the parameter values of the rule are slightly modified.

Keywords: Taylor Rule; Macroeconomic Performance; Counterfactual Simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E47 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Working Paper: The Taylor Rule and the Macroeconomic Performance in Pakistan (2007)
Working Paper: The Taylor Rule and the Macroeconomic Performance in Pakistan (2007)
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