In Africa, a number of countries like South Africa have adopted inflation targeting. In Nigeria, different monetary … policy regimes have been adopted over the years with rather unsatisfactory success. This study examines inflation targeting … 2016. The study unravels evidence of a significant response of inflation and squared inflation to policy interest rates in …

-term interest rates. A rolling, reduced form, vector autoregression of interest rates, unemployment and inflation rates is employed … manner to unemployment and inflation innovations. However, when the group of inflation targeting countries are separately …

When inflation picks up, central banks are most concerned that the de-anchoring of inflation expectations and the … ignition of wage-price spirals will trigger inflation dynamic instability. However, such scenarios do not materialize in the … updated according to the actual inflation process, with indexed wages, and persistent inflation shocks. In these cases, a more …