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Inflation Targeting and Fiscal Rules: Do Interactions and Sequencing Matter?

By Jean-Louis Combes, Xavier Debrun, Alexandru Minea, Rene Tapsoba

May 28, 2014

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Jean-Louis Combes, Xavier Debrun, Alexandru Minea, and Rene Tapsoba. Inflation Targeting and Fiscal Rules: Do Interactions and Sequencing Matter?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

The paper examines the joint impact of inflation targeting (IT) and fiscal rules (FR) on fiscal behavior and inflation in a broad panel of advanced and developing economies over the period 1990-2009. The main contribution of the paper is to show that, as suggested by the theoretical literature, interactions between FR and IT matter a great deal for policy outcomes. Specifically, the combination of FR and IT appears to deliver more disciplined macroeconomic policies than each of these institutions in isolation. In addition, the sequencing of the monetary and fiscal reforms plays a role: adopting FR before IT delivers stronger results than the reverse sequence.

Subject: Fiscal policy, Fiscal rules, Fiscal stance, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Monetary policy, Prices

Keywords: Africa, Budget constraint, Dummy variable, Fiscal rules, Fiscal stance, FR adoption, Government stability, Inflation, Inflation rate, Inflation targeting, Institutional reform sequencing, IT adoption, IT framework, Monetary policy, Sequence IT-first-then-FR, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2014/089

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2014089

  • ISBN:

    9781498322379

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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