[eng] This paper examines the behavior of the Central Bank of Tunisia in the conduct of its monetary policy. To this end, a Taylor rule for the interest rate is estimated using a smooth-transition regression model over the period 1990-2008. We find that the Central Bank’s reaction function is...

The aim of this paper is to propose to the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) a generating process of the interest rate, which yields a compromise between the macro and micro monetary objectives. The results of this paper show that the most suitable rule is the one that grants the highest weight to...