Castelnuovo, Efrem; Greco, Luciano; Raggi, Davide - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2010
This paper estimates Taylor rules featuring instabilities in policy parameters, switches in policy shocks' volatility, and time-varying trend inflation using post-WWII U.S. data. The model embedding the stochastic target performs better in terms of data-fit and identification of the changes in...