Monetary policy, judgment and near-rational exuberance
James Bullard,
George Evans and
Seppo Honkapohja
No 2007-008, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Abstract:
We study how the use of judgment or \"add-factors\" in macroeconomic forecasting may disturb the set of equilibrium outcomes when agents learn using recursive methods. We examine the possibility of a new phenomenon, which we call exuberance equilibria, in the New Keynesian monetary policy framework. Inclusion of judgment in forecasts can lead to self-fulfilling fluctuations in a subset of the determinacy region. We study how policymakers can minimize the risk of exuberance equilibria.
Keywords: Rational expectations (Economic theory); Monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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