Alternative Monetary Policy Rules for India

Download or read book Alternative Monetary Policy Rules for India written by Michael Debabrata Patra and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper empirically evaluates the operational performance of the McCallum rule, the Taylor rule and hybrid rules in India over the period 1996-2011 using quarterly data, with a view to analytically informing the conduct of monetary policy. The results show that forward-looking formulations of both rules and their hybrid version - setting a nominal output growth objective for monetary policy with an interest rate instrument - outperform contemporaneous and backward-looking specifications, especially when targeting core components of GDP and inflation, and combine the best parts of efficiency and discretion.