Exploring the Nexus between Inflation and Globalization Under Inflation Targeting Through the Lens of New Zealand's Experience
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Exploring the Nexus between Inflation and Globalization Under Inflation Targeting Through the Lens of New Zealand's Experience
Date Written: March 18, 2017
Abstract
We investigate empirically the inflation dynamics in New Zealand, a small open economy and a pioneer in inflation targeting, under various open-economy Phillips curve specifications. Our forecasting exercise suggests that open-economy Phillips curves under standard measures of global slack do not help forecast domestic inflation, possibly indicating measurement problems with global slack itself. In turn, under a stable inflation target we still find that (i) global inflation and (ii) global inflation and oil prices have information content for headline CPI and core CPI inflation over the 1997:Q3-2015:Q1 period and appear to be reliable proxies for global slack in forecasting inflation.
Keywords: Inflation Dynamics, Open-Economy Phillips Curve, Inflation Targeting, Inflation Forecasting
JEL Classification: C21, C23, C53, F41, F47, F62
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