Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100223
Carlos A. Medel
This article examines the determinants of the anchoring of inflation expectations in Chile, both within and beyond the two-year policy horizon. Despite the heightened sensitivity of expectations to actual inflation developments following the recent inflation surge, evidence from linear and non-linear time-series models, as well as binary-outcome analyses, suggests that confidence in the Central Bank’s official inflation forecasts can persist, even in the presence of exogenous influences such as global and domestic economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. The findings indicate that, notwithstanding observed deviations from the inflation target, full confidence in the monetary policy stance can be maintained. Robustness checks confirm the baseline results when incorporating the full set of responses from the widely used inflation expectations survey. Nonetheless, financial market participants tend to anchor their expectations more firmly to the target, in contrast to experts and academics, who respond more strongly to new data. Members of the corporate sector appear to lie between these two groups in their expectations behaviour.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100226
Aslıhan Atabek Demirhan
Firms' pricing decisions play a pivotal role in shaping inflation dynamics through their collective price-setting behaviour. This study investigates firms’ pricing behaviour in the Turkish manufacturing sector using firm-level Business Tendency Survey data. Newly constructed monthly indicators capture the frequency and synchronization of price changes, providing insights into how price-setting dynamics evolve under high and volatile inflation. The results show that state-dependent pricing has become increasingly dominant in recent years, with firms responding more rapidly to cost and demand shocks while exhibiting reduced price rigidity. Sectoral evidence reveals marked heterogeneity across industries, reflecting differences in market structures and cost pressures. Moreover, firms display asymmetric behaviour, adjusting prices upward faster than downward, which contributes to inflation persistence. Overall, the findings highlight that the pricing behaviour of Turkish manufacturing firms is shaped by elevated inflation and economic shocks. These dynamics have important implications for monetary policy, underscoring the importance of expectation management and targeted interventions to support the ongoing disinflation process.
{"title":"Monitoring pricing behaviour dynamics through the lens of business tendency surveys∗","authors":"Aslıhan Atabek Demirhan","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100226","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Firms' pricing decisions play a pivotal role in shaping inflation dynamics through their collective price-setting behaviour. This study investigates firms’ pricing behaviour in the Turkish manufacturing sector using firm-level Business Tendency Survey data. Newly constructed monthly indicators capture the frequency and synchronization of price changes, providing insights into how price-setting dynamics evolve under high and volatile inflation. The results show that state-dependent pricing has become increasingly dominant in recent years, with firms responding more rapidly to cost and demand shocks while exhibiting reduced price rigidity. Sectoral evidence reveals marked heterogeneity across industries, reflecting differences in market structures and cost pressures. Moreover, firms display asymmetric behaviour, adjusting prices upward faster than downward, which contributes to inflation persistence. Overall, the findings highlight that the pricing behaviour of Turkish manufacturing firms is shaped by elevated inflation and economic shocks. These dynamics have important implications for monetary policy, underscoring the importance of expectation management and targeted interventions to support the ongoing disinflation process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Article 100226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145738884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100221
Burçin Kısacıkoğlu
This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty spillovers on emerging markets. We focus on COVID-19-related news as news about global uncertainty and estimate the dynamic response of high-frequency risk measures in emerging markets. Using heteroskedasticity-based estimation and aggregate emerging market indices, we show that heightened uncertainty increases government bond and CDS spreads and decreases stock prices. Using seven emerging markets, we show that country-level risk measures respond to uncertainty consistently with aggregate measures. We argue that the results are consistent with standard consumption-based asset pricing theory.
{"title":"Emerging market riskiness and uncertainty spillovers: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Burçin Kısacıkoğlu","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100221","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100221","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty spillovers on emerging markets. We focus on COVID-19-related news as news about global uncertainty and estimate the dynamic response of high-frequency risk measures in emerging markets. Using heteroskedasticity-based estimation and aggregate emerging market indices, we show that heightened uncertainty increases government bond and CDS spreads and decreases stock prices. Using seven emerging markets, we show that country-level risk measures respond to uncertainty consistently with aggregate measures. We argue that the results are consistent with standard consumption-based asset pricing theory.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"25 4","pages":"Article 100221"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100225
Andriy Tsapin , Oleksandr Faryna
This paper investigates how households’ financial literacy influences their perceptions of past inflation and expectations of future price changes. Using novel survey data collected in Ukraine, we employ instrumental variable quantile regression models across various household subsamples to assess the asymmetric and heterogeneous effects of financial literacy on inflation-related beliefs. We find that the impact of financial literacy varies significantly across the distributions of inflation perceptions and expectations, shaped by distinct components – knowledge, behavior, and attitude – as well as by household characteristics such as size, income level, and place of residence. We also find that trust in the banking system enhances the accuracy of inflation beliefs, with a stronger effect as perceptions and expectations deviate from benchmarks. These findings have important implications for central banks seeking to anchor inflation expectations.
{"title":"The role of financial literacy in shaping inflation beliefs: The case of Ukraine","authors":"Andriy Tsapin , Oleksandr Faryna","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100225","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100225","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates how households’ financial literacy influences their perceptions of past inflation and expectations of future price changes. Using novel survey data collected in Ukraine, we employ instrumental variable quantile regression models across various household subsamples to assess the asymmetric and heterogeneous effects of financial literacy on inflation-related beliefs. We find that the impact of financial literacy varies significantly across the distributions of inflation perceptions and expectations, shaped by distinct components – knowledge, behavior, and attitude – as well as by household characteristics such as size, income level, and place of residence. We also find that trust in the banking system enhances the accuracy of inflation beliefs, with a stronger effect as perceptions and expectations deviate from benchmarks. These findings have important implications for central banks seeking to anchor inflation expectations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Article 100225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145738897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-23DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100224
Fernando Borraz , Miguel Mello
This paper examines how the formation of inflation expectations and the magnitude of prediction errors vary among price setters based on the central bank’s communication and their level of information. We utilize dynamic panel data models to determine the importance of firms’ information about the prevailing inflation rate and the official inflation target. Our analysis reveals that the communicated tone of monetary policy amplifies the existing bias of the monetary policy instrument when these two are consistent. However, the credibility of the central bank’s communication diminishes when the stated tone and the implemented policy instruments diverge. By analyzing the interplay between information about inflation and the tone of the central bank’s monetary policy statements, we conclude that agents with partial information form their expectations distinctly. Notably, for these partially informed agents, the credibility of communication is not necessarily undermined by a mismatch between the stated tone and policy instruments. Furthermore, agents with complete information exhibit lower prediction errors.
{"title":"Communication, information and inflation expectations","authors":"Fernando Borraz , Miguel Mello","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100224","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100224","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how the formation of inflation expectations and the magnitude of prediction errors vary among price setters based on the central bank’s communication and their level of information. We utilize dynamic panel data models to determine the importance of firms’ information about the prevailing inflation rate and the official inflation target. Our analysis reveals that the communicated tone of monetary policy amplifies the existing bias of the monetary policy instrument when these two are consistent. However, the credibility of the central bank’s communication diminishes when the stated tone and the implemented policy instruments diverge. By analyzing the interplay between information about inflation and the tone of the central bank’s monetary policy statements, we conclude that agents with partial information form their expectations distinctly. Notably, for these partially informed agents, the credibility of communication is not necessarily undermined by a mismatch between the stated tone and policy instruments. Furthermore, agents with complete information exhibit lower prediction errors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Article 100224"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145738886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-08-12DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100212
Ekkehard Ernst , Rossana Merola , Allan Gregory Ward Auclair
In this paper, we propose a new set of indicators of Central Bank's communication to estimate speech intensity in five different macroeconomic fields: monetary conditions, financial stability, external competitiveness, labour and social conditions and economic activity. In addition, we also built an index of Central Banks' communication about the state of the economy and related concepts like uncertainty and risk. To do this, we develop an automated text-mining routine using the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) collection of speeches given by Central Bank senior executives. We use this set of indicators to compare goals and strategies across several Central Banks (the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Reserve Bank of Australia) from the late 1990s up to 2023. We then assess whether communication intensity is mirrored in Central Banks' policy decisions. Our empirical results suggest that communication is usually a complement for monetary policy and that its intensity rises as monetary policy becomes more persistent. The late 2010s were an exception. With a near-binding ZLB, communications and policy actions diverged to some extent.
{"title":"Central bank communication: A quantitative assessment","authors":"Ekkehard Ernst , Rossana Merola , Allan Gregory Ward Auclair","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100212","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100212","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we propose a new set of indicators of Central Bank's communication to estimate speech intensity in five different macroeconomic fields: monetary conditions, financial stability, external competitiveness, labour and social conditions and economic activity. In addition, we also built an index of Central Banks' communication about the state of the economy and related concepts like uncertainty and risk. To do this, we develop an automated text-mining routine using the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) collection of speeches given by Central Bank senior executives. We use this set of indicators to compare goals and strategies across several Central Banks (the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Reserve Bank of Australia) from the late 1990s up to 2023. We then assess whether communication intensity is mirrored in Central Banks' policy decisions. Our empirical results suggest that communication is usually a complement for monetary policy and that its intensity rises as monetary policy becomes more persistent. The late 2010s were an exception. With a near-binding ZLB, communications and policy actions diverged to some extent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"25 3","pages":"Article 100212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144826285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100204
Gábor Hajnal, Bálint Dancsik, Zsuzsanna Hosszú, Ákos Attila Ozoróczy
The study analyzes interest rate pass-through for household and corporate deposits in specific markets in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region, with a focus on the tightening cycle that began in mid-2021. This period is of particular interest to monetary policy, as sharp rate hikes by central banks, in response to a high inflationary environment, followed a period characterized by an abundance of liquidity. We examine the relationship between interbank and deposit interest rates using two methods: wavelet transform and error-correction model. Based on the wavelet analysis, we found a weakening of pass-through and a slowdown in the repricing of deposit interest rates during the tightening cycle across the countries of the CEE region, particularly in the household segment. Using error-correction models, we observe a consistent weakening in both the degree and speed of interest rate pass-through in the Hungarian and Polish deposit markets during the tightening cycle. The extent of pass-through declined most in the Hungarian household deposit market among all CEE countries.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-08-12DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100211
Okan Akarsu
In this paper, I explore the spillover effects of frontier firms on other firms in Türkiye, using a detailed administrative dataset with firm-level data on balance sheets, inter-firm transactions, and employment. I review key production function estimators, evaluate their assumptions and performance using a large dataset of Turkish firms, and use productivity estimates to identify frontier firms and assess their influence on laggard firms' performance. Additionally, I contribute to the empirical literature by exploring the spillover and network effects of frontier firms on laggard firms, as well as examining the productivity convergence of laggard firms to frontier firms. The analysis reveals three key findings: (i) Frontier firms generate positive spillover effects within sectors, which enhance sales, employment, exports, and asset growth among laggard firms; (ii) detailed firm-to-firm invoice data reveals that a higher share of frontier firms in a firm's network significantly boosts investment, net sales, and productivity growth; and (iii) laggard firms show faster productivity growth, with substantial variation across firm types and industries.
{"title":"Total factor productivity and spillover effects: Frontier and Laggard firms dynamics","authors":"Okan Akarsu","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100211","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100211","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, I explore the spillover effects of frontier firms on other firms in Türkiye, using a detailed administrative dataset with firm-level data on balance sheets, inter-firm transactions, and employment. I review key production function estimators, evaluate their assumptions and performance using a large dataset of Turkish firms, and use productivity estimates to identify frontier firms and assess their influence on laggard firms' performance. Additionally, I contribute to the empirical literature by exploring the spillover and network effects of frontier firms on laggard firms, as well as examining the productivity convergence of laggard firms to frontier firms. The analysis reveals three key findings: (i) Frontier firms generate positive spillover effects within sectors, which enhance sales, employment, exports, and asset growth among laggard firms; (ii) detailed firm-to-firm invoice data reveals that a higher share of frontier firms in a firm's network significantly boosts investment, net sales, and productivity growth; and (iii) laggard firms show faster productivity growth, with substantial variation across firm types and industries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"25 3","pages":"Article 100211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144826286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100202
Umar Farooq , Mosab I. Tabash , Ebrahim Mohammed Al-Matari , Adeeb Alhebri , Khurshid Khudoykulov , Lara Al-haddad
Green investment is a solution for addressing environmental issues. Besides mitigating pollution, can such investment lead to other financial benefits? In response to this research question, the objective of the current analysis is to reveal the impact of going green on the cost of production (COP) for enterprises. To achieve this aim, we conduct an empirical analysis using 10 years of data (2010–2019) from non-financial sector enterprises in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) economies. Due to the existence of endogeneity issues, we select the system GMM (Generalized Method of Moments) model as our estimation technique. The empirical results reveal that investment in green technologies has a non-linear negative and statistically significant relationship with COP. Initially, focusing on green investment increases the COP due to technology replacement and learning costs. However, after a certain level, such investment reduces the COP, implying an inverted U-shaped relationship between green investment and the cost of production. The conclusion of the study suggests that corporate managers should consistently invest in green technologies and adopt it as a long-term strategy. This study contributes to the literature by demonstrating the real-time role of green investment in reducing the COP.
{"title":"Does it pay to invest in environmental sustainability? Green innovation and costs of production","authors":"Umar Farooq , Mosab I. Tabash , Ebrahim Mohammed Al-Matari , Adeeb Alhebri , Khurshid Khudoykulov , Lara Al-haddad","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Green investment is a solution for addressing environmental issues. Besides mitigating pollution, can such investment lead to other financial benefits? In response to this research question, the objective of the current analysis is to reveal the impact of going green on the cost of production (COP) for enterprises. To achieve this aim, we conduct an empirical analysis using 10 years of data (2010–2019) from non-financial sector enterprises in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) economies. Due to the existence of endogeneity issues, we select the system GMM (Generalized Method of Moments) model as our estimation technique. The empirical results reveal that investment in green technologies has a non-linear negative and statistically significant relationship with COP. Initially, focusing on green investment increases the COP due to technology replacement and learning costs. However, after a certain level, such investment reduces the COP, implying an inverted U-shaped relationship between green investment and the cost of production. The conclusion of the study suggests that corporate managers should consistently invest in green technologies and adopt it as a long-term strategy. This study contributes to the literature by demonstrating the real-time role of green investment in reducing the COP.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"25 3","pages":"Article 100202"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144242301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-27DOI: 10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100201
Usman Adamu Bello , Auwal Isah
The relative success of Inflation Targeting (IT) amidst widespread rising inflation globally is motivating the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to renew its desire for an IT framework. This paper applies the Time-Varying Parameter Structural Vector Autoregression with the Stochastic Volatility model (TVP-SVAR-SVM) to examine the potential benefits and provide hindsight for the CBN within the interest rate channel. The paper draws parallels between the CBN's Monetary Targeting (MT) and South Africa's Reserve Bank (SARB) IT. The result of the SVM uncovers a disparity regarding inflation uncertainty associated with interest rate pass-through. At the same time, two distinct parallels were unveiled regarding the impulse response function (IRF) result. Although CBN was found to have experienced decelerating inflation uncertainty, the SARB's IT shows no potential benefit. Meanwhile, compelling distinctiveness from the results of the IRF is: first, relative consistency in short-term inflation forecast and the future expected inflation (8-period and 12-period) found in the SARB's IT. This was accompanied by an observed absence of distortions over the declining trajectory of inflation, which allows it to build monetary policy credibility over time, while the strong indication of achieving rapid long-run disinflation over time was also detected. Thus, confirming the relatively greater degree of expectation anchoring. In contrast, the CBN's MT showed manifestation of distortions over time, with difficulties in suppressing impending inflationary pressure, whereas the expected inflation forecast deviated from its short-term (4-period) inflation forecast. Secondly, evidence of speed in the SARB's IT during the initial impact of interest rate pass-through was twice as fast as the CBN's MT. Consequently, the total impact of the pass-through to inflation under MT was also found to be delayed by 8 periods relative to the IT. This paper concludes that the characterized evidence uncovered constitutes a relatively effective SARB's IT, and a key benefit resides in the comparatively faster interest rate pass-through in the IT. This could potentially restrain the rapidness with which nominal adjustable inflation-indexed wages under short contracts have on inflation.
{"title":"Does difference in monetary policy framework matter for interest rate Pass-through? Evidence from TVP-VAR with stochastic volatility","authors":"Usman Adamu Bello , Auwal Isah","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2025.100201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The relative success of Inflation Targeting (IT) amidst widespread rising inflation globally is motivating the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to renew its desire for an IT framework. This paper applies the Time-Varying Parameter Structural Vector Autoregression with the Stochastic Volatility model (TVP-SVAR-SVM) to examine the potential benefits and provide hindsight for the CBN within the interest rate channel. The paper draws parallels between the CBN's Monetary Targeting (MT) and South Africa's Reserve Bank (SARB) IT. The result of the SVM uncovers a disparity regarding inflation uncertainty associated with interest rate pass-through. At the same time, two distinct parallels were unveiled regarding the impulse response function (IRF) result. Although CBN was found to have experienced decelerating inflation uncertainty, the SARB's IT shows no potential benefit. Meanwhile, compelling distinctiveness from the results of the IRF is: first, relative consistency in short-term inflation forecast and the future expected inflation (8-period and 12-period) found in the SARB's IT. This was accompanied by an observed absence of distortions over the declining trajectory of inflation, which allows it to build monetary policy credibility over time, while the strong indication of achieving rapid long-run disinflation over time was also detected. Thus, confirming the relatively greater degree of expectation anchoring. In contrast, the CBN's MT showed manifestation of distortions over time, with difficulties in suppressing impending inflationary pressure, whereas the expected inflation forecast deviated from its short-term (4-period) inflation forecast. Secondly, evidence of speed in the SARB's IT during the initial impact of interest rate pass-through was twice as fast as the CBN's MT. Consequently, the total impact of the pass-through to inflation under MT was also found to be delayed by 8 periods relative to the IT. This paper concludes that the characterized evidence uncovered constitutes a relatively effective SARB's IT, and a key benefit resides in the comparatively faster interest rate pass-through in the IT. This could potentially restrain the rapidness with which nominal adjustable inflation-indexed wages under short contracts have on inflation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"25 2","pages":"Article 100201"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}