Assessing the performance of inflation targeting in East Asian economies

作者：Taguchi Hiroyuki^*; Kato Chizuru

来源：Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 2011, 25(1): 93-102.

DOI：10.1111/j.1467-8411.2011.01277.x

This paper examines the implementation and performance of inflation targeting (IT) in four East Asian emerging market economies: Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. It also examines monetary policy in Malaysia, a country that has not adopted IT. The study estimates policy reaction functions to test the links between the adoption of IT and use of a monetary policy rule. The impulse responses of prices to a monetary policy shock are also estimated to identify monetary policy impacts on prices. The findings on the monetary policies of the five economies can be summarised as follows. Korea has taken an inflation-responsive and forward-looking policy stance under inflation targeting, which has had an effect on the stability of prices. Indonesia and Thailand have conducted inflation-responsive but backward-looking policy stances, which have had no impact in terms of price stabilisation. The Philippines (which adopted IT but under a pegged exchange rate regime) and Malaysia have neither followed inflation-responsive rules nor had policy impacts in terms of controlling inflation.

• 出版日期2011-5