Targeting Inflation under Uncertainty: Policy Makers’ Perspective

Katerina Smidkova

Macroeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Monetary policy makers need to build two pillars for their inflation targeting strategy. Firstly, a methodology for producing the central forecast should be developed, since the whole decision process is more easily organised around a model forecast. Secondly, a methodology for dealing with uncertainties is equally important, because a poor evaluation of uncertainties can significantly reduce the quality of monetary policy decisions. Reflecting the further progress of the methodological debate inside the CNB, this paper aims to provide suggestions to policy makers as to which methods could be used to assess uncertainty during the monetary policy decision process. Suggestions for each stage of the process are summarised in the final chapter. These take into account the findings of surveys of three very distinct sources – the economic literature on monetary policy under uncertainty, the managerial literature on decision analysis, and the real-life strategies of five central banks. The lessons from these three surveys are presented in separate chapters.

Keywords: Inflation; targeting; Uncertainty; Decision; analysis; Pay-off; matrix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2003-04-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mac, nep-mon and nep-tra
Note: Type of Document - ; pages: 36 . CNB Research and Policy Note 2003/2
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