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Credit Frictions and Optimal Monetary Policy

Vasco Cúrdia and Michael Woodford

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016, vol. 84, issue C, 30-65

Abstract: The basic (representative-household) New Keynesian model of the monetary transmission mechanism is extended to allow for a spread between the interest rate available to savers and borrowers, and investigate the consequences of a variable credit spread for the effects of a variety of shocks, and for optimal policy responses to those shocks. A simple target criterion continues to provide a good approximation to optimal policy. Such a “flexible inflation target” can be implemented by a central-bank reaction function that is similar to a forward-looking Taylor rule, but adjusted for changes in current and expected future credit spreads.

Keywords: Credit spreads; Policy rules; Target criterion; Flexible inflation targeting; Quadratic loss function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2016.10.003

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