Notes on the Underground: Monetary Policy in Resource-Rich Economies

Andrea Ferrero and Martin Seneca

No 13108, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The central bank of a commodity-exporting small open economy faces the traditional stabilization tradeoff between domestic inflation and output gap. The commodity sector introduces a terms-of-trade inefficiency that gives rise to an endogenous cost-push shock, changes the target level for output, reduces the slope of the Phillips curve, and increases the importance of stabilizing the output gap. Optimal monetary policy calls for a reduction of the interest rate following a drop in the oil price. In contrast, a central bank with a mandate to stabilize consumer price inflation needs to raise interest rates to limit the inflationary impact of an exchange rate depreciation.

Keywords: Small open economy; Oil export; Monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 E58 Q30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-08
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Journal Article: Notes on the Underground: Monetary Policy in Resource‐Rich Economies (2019)
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