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Title: Learning About the Term Structure and Optimal Rules for Inflation Targeting

Author(s): Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Eric Schaling and Mewael F. Tesfaselassie

Publication Date: October 2006

Keyword(s): learning, rational expectations, separation principle and term structure of interest rates

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: In this paper we incorporate the term structure of interest rates in a standard inflation forecast targeting framework. We find that under flexible inflation targeting and uncertainty in the degree of persistence in the economy, allowing for active learning possibilities has effects on the optimal interest rate rule followed by the central bank. For a wide range of possible initial beliefs about the unknown parameter, the dynamically optimal rule is in general more activist, in the sense of responding aggressively to the state of the economy, than the myopic rule for small to moderate deviations of the state variable from its target. On the other hand, for large deviations, the optimal policy is less activist than the myopic and the certainty equivalence policies.

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Eijffinger, S, Schaling, E and Tesfaselassie, M. 2006. 'Learning About the Term Structure and Optimal Rules for Inflation Targeting'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5896