Monetary Policy Risk: Rules vs. Discretion

David Backus, Mikhail Chernov, Stanley Zin and Irina Zviadadze

No 28983, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Long-run asset-pricing restrictions in a macro term-structure model identify discretionary monetary policy separately from a policy rule. We find that policy discretion is an important contributor to aggregate risk. In addition, discretionary easing coincides with good news about the macroeconomy in the form of lower inflation, higher output growth, and lower risk premiums on short-term nominal bonds. However, it also coincides with bad news about long-term financial conditions in the form of higher risk premiums on long-term nominal bonds. Shocks to the rule correlate with changes in the yield curve’s level. Shocks to discretion correlate with changes in its slope.

JEL-codes: E43 E52 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-07
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