Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248314 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper No. 2021-53
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
This paper compares alternative monetary policy regimes within a controlled lab environment, where groups of participants are tasked with repeatedly forecasting inflation in a simple macroeconomic model featuring only the dynamics of interest rates, inflation and inflation expectations. Average-inflation targeting can approximate the price path observed under price-level targeting in the presence of disinflationary shocks and enable subjects to coordinate on simple heuristics that reflect the concern of the central bank for past inflation gaps. However, this depends on the exact specification of the policy rule. In particular, if the central bank considers more than two lags, subjects fail to form expectations that are consistent with the monetary policy rule, which results in greater inflation volatility. Reinforcing communication around the target helps somewhat anchor longrun inflation expectations.
Subjects: 
Monetary policy framework
Inflation targets
Monetary policy communications
JEL: 
E31
E52
E7
C92
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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