Using a short-term interest rate as the monetary policy instrument can be problematic near its zero bound constraint. An alternative strategy is to use a long-term interest rate as the policy instrument. We find when Taylor-type policy rules are used to set the long rate in a standard New...

Keynote speech: Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy on House Prices and the EconomyFull Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861007' Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific

This paper focuses on simple normative rules for monetary policy that central banks can use to guide their interest rate decisions. Such rules were first derived from research on empirical monetary models with rational expectations and sticky prices built in the 1970s and 1980s. During the past...