Has the information channel of monetary policy disappeared? Revisiting the empirical evidence

Lukas Hoesch (), Barbara Rossi and Tatevik Sekhposyan

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: Does the Federal Reserve have an "information advantage" in forecasting macroeconomic variables beyond what is known to private sector forecasters? And are market participants reacting only to monetary policy shocks or also to information on the future state of the economy that the Federal Reserve communicates in its announcements via an "information channel"? This paper investigates the evolution of both the information advantage and information channel over time. Although they appear to be important historically, we find substantially weaker empirical evidence of their presence in the recent years once instabilities are accounted for.

Keywords: Forecasting; monetary policy; instabilities; time variation; survey forecasts; information channel of monetary policy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C14 C22 C52 C53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-02, Revised 2021-07
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