Money in Monetary Policy Design: A Formal Characterization of ECB-Style Cross-Checking

Volker Wieland and Guenter Beck

No 6097, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much criticism for this decision. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard model of the monetary transmission process that underlies many contributions to research on monetary policy in the last two decades. In this paper, we develop a justification for including money in the interest rate rule by allowing for imperfect knowledge regarding unobservables such as potential output and equilibrium interest rates. We formulate a novel characterization of ECB-style monetary cross-checking and show that it can generate substantial stabilization benefits in the event of persistent policy misperceptions regarding potential output.

Keywords: European central bank; Monetary policy; Monetary policy under uncertainty; Money; Quantity theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E41 E43 E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-02
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