This article aims to review the monetary policy rule under inflation targeting framework focusing on Mongolia. The empirical analysis estimates the policy reaction function to see if the inflation targeting has been linked with a monetary policy rule emphasizing on inflation stabilization since...

Did the Federal Reserve's response to economic fundamentals change with the onset of the Global Financial Crisis? Estimation of a monetary policy rule to answer this question faces a censoring problem since the interest rate target has been set at the zero lower bound since late 2008. Surveys by...

Following a monetary growth rate rule, the present paper ranks four simple monetary rules under various stochastic shocks. The criteria to choose among rules are obtained using a welfare criterion derived from the utility function of the representative agent. The main results are: the effects of...

Interest rates are unreliable indicators of appropriate monetary policy; low nominal rates do not indicate easy money. This paper attempts to assess the stance of monetary policy without relying on interest rates. A new monetary policy rule is developed based on a forward-looking generalization...

The paper examines the joint impact of inflation targeting (IT) and fiscal rules (FR) on fiscal behavior and inflation in a broad panel of advanced and developing economies over the period 1990-2009. The main contribution of the paper is to show that, as suggested by the theoretical literature,...

US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) projections for the federal funds rate are inherently subject to revision with the availability of new data. But when issued jointly with projections for macroeconomic aggregates, they also contain conditional information about the intended future policy...

The paper explains the expediency of developing an explicit rule of monetary policy for the economy of Ukraine. It studies the stages of its development, proving the expediency of formation of monetary rules for money aggregates, evaluates equilibrium values of the rule's parameters based on the...

A small, open macro model with new transmission channels is developed to account for the post-crisis structural changes and to evaluate various policy rules for inflation targeting. Given significant changes in transmission channels and the lingering fragility in the financial sector, policy...

We investigate U.S. monetary and fiscal policy interactions in a regime-switching model of monetary and fiscal policy rules where policy mixes are determined by a latent bivariate autoregressive process consisting of monetary and fiscal policy regime factors, each determining a respective policy...