Desirability of Nominal GDP Targeting under Adaptive Learning

Nominal GDP targeting has been advocated by a number of authors since it produces relative stability of inflation and output. However, all of the papers assume rational expectations on the part of private agents. In this paper I provide an analysis of this assumption. I use stability under recursive learning as a criterion for evaluating nominal GDP targeting in the context of amodel with explicit micro-foundations which is currently the workhorse for the analysis of monetary policy.