Money Targeting in a Modern Forecasting and Policy Analysis System: an Application to Kenya

By Michal Andrle, Andrew Berg, Enrico G Berkes, Rafael A Portillo, Jan Vlcek, R. Armando Morales

November 25, 2013

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Michal Andrle, Andrew Berg, Enrico G Berkes, Rafael A Portillo, Jan Vlcek, and R. Armando Morales Money Targeting in a Modern Forecasting and Policy Analysis System: an Application to Kenya, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

We extend the framework in Andrle and others (2013) to incorporate an explicit role for money targets and target misses in the analysis of monetary policy in low-income countries (LICs), with an application to Kenya. We provide a general specification that can nest various types of money targeting (ranging from targets based on optimal money demand forecasts to those derived from simple money growth rules), interest-rate based frameworks, and intermediate cases. Our framework acknowledges that ex-post adherence to targets is in itself an objective of policy in LICs; here we provide a novel interpretation of target misses in terms of structural shocks (aggregate demand, policy, shocks to money demand, etc). In the case of Kenya, we find that: (i) the setting of money targets is consistent with money demand forecasting, (ii) targets have not played a systematic role in monetary policy, and (iii) target misses mainly reflect shocks to money demand. Simulations of the model under alternative policy specifications show that the stronger the ex-post target adherence, the greater the macroeconomic volatility. Our findings highlight the benefits of a model-based approach to monetary policy analysis in LICs, including in countries with money-targeting frameworks.

Subject: Banking, Demand for money, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Monetary aggregates, Monetary base, Money, Prices

Keywords: Central bank, Demand for money, Exchange rates, Forecasting, Global, Inflation, Interest rate, Interest rate rule, Kenya, Low-Income Countries, Monetary aggregates, Monetary base, Monetary policy, Money demand, Money demand demand shock, Money growth, Money market, Money target, Money Targeting, Target adherence, Target miss, WP

Publication Details

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44
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Working Paper No. 2013/239
Stock No:

WPIEA2013239
ISBN:

9781475538007
ISSN:

1018-5941

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