Arbeitspapier

Average is good enough: Average-inflation targeting and the ELB

The Great Recession and current pandemic have focused attention on the constraint on nominal interest rates from the effective lower bound. This has renewed interest in monetary policies that embed makeup strategies, such as price-level or average-inflation targeting. This paper examines the properties of average-inflation targeting in a two-agent New Keynesian (TANK) model in which a fraction of firms have adaptive expectations. We examine the optimal degree of history dependence under average-inflation targeting and find it to be relatively short for business cycle shocks of standard magnitude and duration. In this case, we show that the properties of the economy are quantitatively similar to those under a pricelevel target.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2020-31

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Monetary Policy
Thema
Monetary policy framework
Business fluctuations and cycles
Economic models

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Amano, Robert A.
Gnocchi, Stefano
Leduc, Sylvain
Wagner, Joel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Canada
(wo)
Ottawa
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2020-31
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

Datenpartner

Dieses Objekt wird bereitgestellt von:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.

Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Amano, Robert A.
  • Gnocchi, Stefano
  • Leduc, Sylvain
  • Wagner, Joel
  • Bank of Canada

Entstanden

  • 2020

Ähnliche Objekte (12)