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Issues in the Choice of a Monetary Regime for India
Warwick J. McKibbin
&
Kanhaiya Singh
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Summary – Current Issues in Monetary Policy in India– The Theory of Monetary Regime Design
• Instrument Choice Problem• Intermediate Target Problem• Simple versus Optimal Rules
– The MSG2 Multi Country Model– Implementing Alternative Regimes in the model– Results for Alternative Regimes for India– Conclusion
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Current Debate in India
• Money Targeting in place since the mid 1980s;
• Substantial reform of the financial markets in the 1990s with greater reliance on prices rather than quantitative restrictions in implementing monetary policy;
• Should India move to an inflation target?
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Theory of Regime Design
• A monetary regime is a set of instruments, intermediate targets and ultimate targets (goals) in which a relationship is specified between instruments and intermediate targets in order to minimize a loss function in terms of ultimate goals.
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Theory of Regime Design
• Many issues– which instruments?– which intermediate targets?– rules versus discretion
• credibility and time consistency important
– arbitrary simple rules versus optimal simple rules versus fully optimal rules
• Ultimately many of the issues are empirical
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The Modeling framework
• The McKibbin-Sachs Global Model (version 44m)
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The MSG2 Model
• Dynamic, Intertemporal, General Equilibrium
• Multi-Country
• Macroeconomic
• Keynesian short run with unemployment
• Mix of forward looking & rule of thumb behavior
See WWW.MSGPL.COM.AU
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The MSG2 Model– Countries
– United States
– Japan
– Germany
– France
– Canada
– United Kingdom
– Italy
– Rest of Euro Zone
– Mexico
– Rest of OECD
– India
– OPEC
– Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union
– Other developing countries
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Agents and Markets
• AGENTS MARKETS Households Goods & Services Firms Factors of Production Governments Money
Bond Equity
Foreign Exchange
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Key dynamic features
• annual frequency
• physical capital is accumulation is endogenous but subject to adjustment costs
• forward looking agents in goods, factor and financial markets
• full accounting of stock flow relations
• combination of intertemporal optimization by agents plus liquidity constraints
• sticky nominal wages
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Some Important Issues
• Trade, capital flows and adjustments in domestic financial markets are central to global adjustment to shocks;
• Agents arbitrage between different assets within countries and across countries - taking into account the adjustment costs of changing the physical capital stock in each sector.
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3 regimes
• Money targeting
• Inflation targeting
• Nominal income targeting (nominal GDP)
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5 shocks (in 2000)
• Persistent rise in aggregate demand
• Temporary rise in aggregate demand
• Persistent rise in labour productivity
• Temporary rise in labour productivity
• Permanent rise in the risk of holding Indian assets
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Some results
Note that all results are deviation from what otherwise would have occurred (zero is no deviation)
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Figure-1
Real GDP Under a Permanent Domestic Demand Shock
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Figure-2
Inflation Under a Permanent Domestic Demand Shock
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Figure-3
$US/Rupee Exchange Rate Under a Permanent Domestic Demand Shock
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Figure-4
Interest Rate Under a Permanent Domestic Demand Shock
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Figure-5
Trade Balance Under a Permanent Domestic Demand Shock
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Figure-6
Stock Market Value Under a Permanent Domestic Demand Shock
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Figure-7
Real GDP Under a Temporary Domestic Demand Shock
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Figure-8
Inflation Under a Temporary Domestic Demand Shock
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Figure-13
Real GDP Under a Permanent Domestic Supply Shock
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Figure-14
Inflation Under a Permanent Domestic Supply Shock
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Figure-15
$US/Rupee Exchange Rate Under a Permanent Domestic Supply Shock
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Figure-16
Interest Rate Under a Permanent Domestic Supply Shock
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Figure-17
Trade Balance Under a Permanent Domestic Supply Shock
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Figure-18
Stock Market Value Under a Permanent Domestic Supply Shock
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Figure-19
Real GDP Under a Temporary Domestic Supply Shock
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Figure-20
Inflation Under a Temporary Domestic Supply Shock
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Figure-25
Real GDP Under a Permanent Increase in Risk Premium on Indian Assets
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Figure-26
Inflation Under a Permanent Increase in Risk Premium on Indian Assets
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$US/Rupee Exchange Rate Under a Permanent Increase in Risk Premium on Indian Assets
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Figure-28
In terest Rate Under a Perm anent Inc rease in R isk Prem iu m on IndianAssets
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Figure-29
Trade Balance Under a Permanent Increase in Risk Premium on Indian Assets
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Figure-30
Stock Market Value Under a Permanent Increase in Risk Premium on Indian Assets
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Summary of Results
• Inflation targeting increases output volatility under supply shocks and shocks to risk perceptions
• Money targeting increase volatility of output for temporary aggregate demand shocks (and money demand shocks)
• Nominal income targeting appears to work well but there are issues to be resolved in practical implementation
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Summary of Results• Inflation targeting is likely to dominate
money targeting in a period of financial reform but a pure form of inflation targeting is problematic for the types of shocks likely to occur in India during a period of structural reform (productivity and confidence shocks)
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Summary of Results• A nominal income target is likely to be
better for India in terms of handling shocks and just as good as inflation targeting for credibility
• The Australian Reserve Bank approach of inflation targeting over the cycle is really an imprecisely defined nominal income target
• More research is needed on how to implement nominal income targeting in India.