The Albanian Medium Term Projection Model

The Bank of Albania introduced a small semi-structural Medium-Term Projection Model (MPM) in 2013, as part of its forecasting toolkit, to support the monetary policy decision making process. This initial version of the model was built in 2011 in joint cooperation between the IMF, through a Technical Assistance (TA) program, and the Bank of Albania, in a bid to modernize the latter’s forecasting and policy analysis FPAS) and in conjunction with Bank of Albania’s strategic goal to move to a fully-fledged inflation targeting regime.