Oxford Economic Papers Advance Access originally published online on September 18, 2006
Oxford Economic Papers 2006 58(4):681-705; doi:10.1093/oep/gpl018
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Adjusted monetary aggregates and UK inflation targeting

*Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham, NG8 1BB
Department of Economics, California State University, Fullerton
Correspondence: e-mail: Leigh.Drake{at}nottingham.ac.uk
This study shows how to construct monetary aggregates using a procedure to adjust the simple-sum, Divisia and empirical monetary aggregates to be consistent with weak separability. The corresponding adjusted monetary aggregates have considerable leading indicator information and provide the most accurate predictions of inflation over the Bank of England's two year forecast horizon.
Key Words: JEL classification: C14 C43 E51 E52