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SECTORAL DIFFERENCES IN PRICE-ADJUSTMENT FREQUENCIES AND OPTIMAL MONETARY POLICY: A NOTE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2013

Engin Kara
Engin Kara*
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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Address correspondence to: Engin Kara, Department of Economics, the University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN, UK; e-mail: engin.kara@bristol.ac.uk.
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Abstract

This paper reconsiders the monetary policy implications of a model from which a distinction between CPI inflation and PPI inflation arises. More specifically, this paper addresses the policy conclusion by K. Huang and Z. Liu [2005, Inflation targeting: What inflation rate to target, Journal of Monetary Economics 52, 1435–1462], which states that central banks should use an optimal inflation index that gives substantial weight to stabilizing both CPI and PPI. This paper argues that these authors' findings rely on the assumption that producer prices are as sticky as consumer prices and shows that once empirically relevant frequencies of price adjustment are used to calibrate the model, CPI inflation receives substantial weight in the optimal inflation index. Moreover, this rule is remarkably robust to uncertainty regarding the model parameters.

Keywords

Inflation TargetingOptimal Monetary Policy
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Notes
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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , April 2015 , pp. 708 - 722
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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