An assessment of the inflation targeting experience

Theologos Dergiades, Costas Milas and Theodore Panagiotidis

No wp2017-11, Bank of Estonia Working Papers from Bank of Estonia

Abstract: An effective inflation targeting (IT) regime assumes both a change in the stationarity properties of inflation and a lower variability. Within a framework that does not make a priori assumptions about the order of integration, we examine whether there is a change in the inflation persistence in forty-five, developed and developing, countries and in three groups of countries, the G7, the OECD, and OECD Europe. For the inflation targeters, we find that the endogenously identified break dates are not consistent with the formal adoption of the IT regime. We employ a test for the variability of inflation that tracks how frequently inflation variability is in control. Logit analysis reveals that inflation targeters do not experience a greater probability than non-inflation targeters of inflation persistence changing, and they are not more in control of their inflation variability. The quality of institutions emerges as being more significant for taming inflation

Keywords: structural change; persistence change; inflation targeting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 E4 E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11-09, Revised 2017-11-09
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