The Reserve Banks of Australia and New Zealand are likely to ignore suggestions that they should lower their inflation targets since that would drive inflation even lower. Targeting nominal GDP growth instead isn’t much more appealing either, partly as it may mean that interest rates need to rise sooner than otherwise. As such, inflation targeting in its current form will be around for a while yet.
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