Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy

Frederic Mishkin

No 13948, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The paper argues that many of the exaggerated claims that globalization has been an important factor in lowering inflation in recent years just do not hold up. Globalization does, however, have the potential to be stabilizing for individual economies and has been a key factor in promoting economic growth. The paper then examines four questions about the impact of globalization on the monetary transmission mechanism and arrives at the following answers: (1) Has globalization led to a decline in the sensitivity of inflation to domestic output gaps and thus to domestic monetary policy? No. (2) Are foreign output gaps playing a more prominent role in the domestic inflation process, so that domestic monetary policy has more difficulty stabilizing inflation? No. (3) Can domestic monetary policy still control domestic interest rates and so stabilize both inflation and output? Yes. (4) Are there other ways, besides possible influences on inflation and interest rates, in which globalization may have affected the transmission mechanism of monetary policy? Yes.

JEL-codes: E52 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-04
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Published as Frederic S. Mishkin, 2009. "Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 41(s1), pages 187-196, 02.
Published as Frederic S. Mishkin, 2008. "Globalization, macroeconomic performance, and monetary policy," Proceedings, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

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