Inflation targeting and interest rates: a panel time-series approach
基于52个发达和新兴经济体1975-2009年的面板数据，研究通胀目标制对名义利率的影响，发现其平均降低了短期和长期名义利率。
Inflation Targeting (IT) can be expected to play a role in structurally reducing nominal interest rates by lowering a country’s inflation expectations and risk premium. Relying on a panel of 52 advanced and emerging economies from 1975–2009, we carry out a formal investigation of this hypothesis. Our econometric strategy adopts a flexible and efficient panel estimation framework, controlling for a number of issues usually neglected in the literature, such as parameter heterogeneity and cross-section dependence. The empirical analysis is based on a dynamic model. Our findings are supportive of a view that, on average, IT leads to a reduction of short- and long-term nominal interest rates.