Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3918 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CEPR Discussion Paper Series No. 5896
Publisher: 
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
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.
JEL: 
C53
E43
E52
F33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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