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 …

We develop a theoretical model that features a business cycle-dependent relation between output, price inflation and … inflation expectations, augmenting the model by Svensson (1997) with a nonlinear Phillips curve that reflects the rationale … pronounced convex relationship between inflation and the output gap, meaning that the co-efficient in the Phillips curve on the …