Asset Prices, Nominal Rigidities, and Monetary Policy

Charles T. Carlstrom and Timothy S. Fuerst ()
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Charles T. Carlstrom: Federal Reserve bank of Cleveland

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2007, vol. 10, issue 2, pages 256-275

Abstract: Should monetary policy respond to asset prices? This paper analyzes this question from the vantage point of equilibrium determinacy. A central bank responding to asset prices is indirectly responding to firm profits. In a model with sticky prices, increases in inflation tend to lower firm profits so that a central bank responding to share prices implicitly weakens its overall response to inflation. This is the novel source of equilibrium indeterminacy highlighted in the paper. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Monetary policy; Equilibrium determinacy; Interest rate rules (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007

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