Money Stock Targeting, Base Drift and Price-Level Predictability: Lessons From the U.K. Experience

Michael Bordo, Ehsan Choudhri () and Anna Schwartz

No 2825, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: It is controversial whether money stock targeting without base drift (i.e. following a trend-stationary growth path) makes the price level more predictable in the presence of permanent shocks to money demand. Developing a procedure that does not run into the Lucas critique, and applying this procedure to the case of the U.K., the paper finds that the variance of the trend inflation rate in the U.K. would have been reduced by more than one half if the Bank of England had not allowed base drift.

Date: 1989-01
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Published as Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 25, No. 21, pp. 253-272, (March 1990).

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