Real Interest Rate Targeting: An Example From Brazil

Volume/Issue: Volume 1990 Issue 111
Publication date: December 1990
ISBN: 9781451945041
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Banks and Banking , Inflation , Money and Monetary Policy , WP , interest rate , real interest rate policy , targeting procedure , policy rule , interest rate rule , government securities market , target rule , period price level , Real interest rates , Inflation , Interest rate policy

Summary

This paper examines a real interest rate targeting procedure based on lagged inflation similar to the policy followed by the Brazilian monetary authorities during the period November 1986 to December 1988, focusing on the issue of the determinacy of the price level. For the specific model examined, the analysis suggests that such a targeting procedure would not suffer from the frequently noted defect of nominal interest rate targeting rules of leaving the conditional expectation of the next period price level undetermined.