Resumen de Monetary policy rules under a fixed exchange rate regime: empirical evidence from China

S. Wang, Jagdish Handa

• This article uses an open economy model to estimate, using cointegration and error-correction analysis, China's monetary policy reaction function for the period 1993 to 2003. Alternative inflation-forecast-based (IFB) policy Taylor-type rules for the interest rate are examined and their parameters are estimated. The empirical results support the hypothesis that the central bank of China follows a Taylor-type rule for the interest rate, with the aim of inflation targeting and output smoothing.