Exploring the Nexus between Inflation and Globalization Under Inflation Targeting Through the Lens of New Zealand's Experience

20 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2017

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Ayşe Dur

North Carolina State University; North Carolina State University - Department of Economics

Enrique Martínez-García

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - Research Department

Mehmet Soytas

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals; Center for Economics and Econometrics; Global Labor Organization

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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

Suggested Citation

Kabukçuoğlu Dur, Ayşe and Kabukçuoğlu Dur, Ayşe and Martinez-Garcia, Enrique and Soytas, Mehmet, Exploring the Nexus between Inflation and Globalization Under Inflation Targeting Through the Lens of New Zealand's Experience (March 18, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2938584 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2938584

Ayşe Kabukçuoğlu Dur

North Carolina State University - Department of Economics ( email )

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