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output-inflation volatility frontier of each model for alternative specifications of the interest rate rule, subject to an …-difference of the federal funds rate responds to the current output gap and the deviation of the one-year average inflation rate … complicated rules (i.e., rules that respond to a larger number of variables and/or additional lags of output and inflation …
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As the author describes it, the Federal Reserve’s muddled mandate to attain simultaneously the incompatible goals of maximum employment and price stability invites short-term-oriented discretionary policymaking inconsistent with the systematic approach needed for monetary policy to...
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The Federal Reserve's muddled mandate to attain simultaneously the incompatible goals of maximum employment and price stability invites short-term-oriented discretionary policymaking inconsistent with the systematic approach needed for monetary policy to contribute best to the economy over time....
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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the state of macroeconomicmodeling and the use of macroeconomic models in policy analysis has come under heavy criticism. Macroeconomists in academia and policy institutions have been blamed for relying too much on a particular class of...
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This paper studies optimal discretionary monetary policy in the presence of uncertainty about the degree of financial frictions. Changes in the degree of financial frictions are modelled as changes in parameters of a hybrid New-Keynesian model calibrated for the UK, following Bean, Larsen and...
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avoids explosive debt and monetary policy controls inflation, irrespective of the relative strengths of each policy stance … inflation. Therefore, inflation and debt dynamics are determined jointly. To ensure stable macroeconomic conditions, both the …
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monetary policy regime under uncertain inflation dynamics that alter the steady state properties of the underlying model as … well as the stochastic dependencies between model parameters and shocks. Since shifts in the inflation target are examples … persistence of inflation to the recent proposal of Blanchard et al. (2010) to raise the inflation target from its conventional …
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relationship between uncertainty of inflation persistence and optimal monetary policy and discusses the consequences of the recent … Blanchard proposal to implement a higher inflation target in the light of parameter uncertainty. Furthermore, it provides …
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relationship between uncertainty of inflation persistence and optimal monetary policy and discusses the consequences of the recent … Blanchard proposal to implement a higher inflation target in the light of parameter uncertainty. Furthermore, it provides …-orthogonal parameter uncertainty. -- inflation persistence ; parameter uncertainty ; inflation target ; dynamic programming …
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