Instability under nominal GDP targeting: the role of expectations

Richard Dennis

No 2000-09, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Abstract: Ball (1997) shows using a small closed economy model that nominal GDP targeting can lead to instability. This paper extends Ball's model to uncover the role inflation expectations play in generating this instability. By changing the process by which inflation expectations are formed in the short-run aggregate supply curve we show that nominal GDP targeting in either level or growth form does not generally result in instability. We further show that in Ball's (1997) case where exact targeting causes instability that moving to inexact targeting restores stability.

Keywords: Gross domestic product; Inflation (Finance); Rational expectations (Economic theory) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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Published in The Economic Journal, vol. 111, pp. 103-113 (January 2001) : title Inflation expectations and the stability properties of nominal GDP targeting

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