Inflation targeting at the crossroads: Evidence from post-communist economies during the crisis |
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Institution: | 1. Otho Smith Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi, Box 1848, University, MS 38677, United States;2. Department of Economics, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, United States;1. Department of Economics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015.;2. Department of Economics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5882.;3. Department of Economics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5882. |
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Abstract: | The objective of this paper is to assess if inflation targeting post-communist economies performed better, in terms of output growth, during the crisis than their non-inflation targeting counterparts. The paper also puts the issue in the context of the preconditions of inflation targeters to adopt this regime. 26 post-communist economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States are analyzed during the ongoing economic crisis. Results suggest that inflation targeters of those countries performed worse than non-inflation targeters. The growth decline in inflation targeters post-communist economies has been estimated to be deeper by about four percentage points than that in non-inflation targeters. The study finds very limited role of the preconditions for growth decline. Only the lower amount of monetary financing of the budget may have contributed in inflation-targeting countries to have gone through the crisis better. |
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Keywords: | Inflation targeting Pre-conditions for adoption Post-communist economies |
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