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Title: The Bond Market: An Inflation-Targeter's Best Friend

Author(s): Andrew K Rose

Publication Date: September 2014

Keyword(s): currency, domestic, effect, empirical, fixed, long, maturity, nominal, panel and risk

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between inflation and the existence of a publicly-traded, long-maturity, nominal, domestic-currency bond market. Bond holders suffer from inflation and could be a potent anti-inflationary force; I ask whether their presence is apparent empirically. I use a panel data approach, examining the difference in inflation before and after the introduction of a bond market. My primary focus is on countries with inflation targeting regimes, though I also examine countries with hard fixed exchange rates and other monetary regimes. Inflation-targeting countries with a bond market experience inflation approximately three to four percentage points lower than those without a bond market. This effect is economically and statistically significant; it is also insensitive to a variety of estimation strategies, including using political and fiscal instrumental variables. The existence of a bond market has little effect on inflation in other monetary regimes, as do indexed or foreign-denominated bonds.

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Rose, A. 2014. 'The Bond Market: An Inflation-Targeter's Best Friend'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=10124