How Did Market Perceptions of the FOMC’s Reaction Function Change after the Fed’s Framework Review?

Ryan Bush, Haitham Jendoubi, Matthew Raskin and Giorgio Topa

No 20201218, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: In late August, as part of the Federal Reserve’s review of Monetary Policy Strategy, Tools, and Communications, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) published a revised Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy. As observers have noted, the revised statement incorporated important changes to the Federal Reserve’s approach to monetary policy. This includes emphasizing maximum employment as a broad-based and inclusive goal and focusing on “shortfalls” rather than “deviations” of employment from its maximum level. The statement also noted that, in order to anchor longer-term inflation expectations at the FOMC’s longer-run goal, the Committee would seek to achieve inflation that averages 2 percent over time. In this post, we investigate the possible impact of these changes on financial market participants’ expectations for policy rate outcomes, based on responses to the Survey of Primary Dealers (SPD) and Survey of Market Participants (SMP) conducted by the New York Fed’s Open Market Trading Desk both shortly before and after the conclusion of the framework review. We find that the conclusion of the framework review coincided with a notable shift in market participants’ perceptions of the FOMC’s policy rate “reaction function,” in the direction of higher expected inflation and lower expected unemployment at the time of the next increase in the federal funds target range (or “liftoff”).

Keywords: Survey of Primary Dealers (SPD); Survey of Market Participants (SMP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D53 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-12-18
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