Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Some New Evidence

Sophocles Mavroeidis

American Economic Review, 2010, vol. 100, issue 1, 491-503

Abstract: I revisit the question of indeterminacy in US monetary policy using limited-information identification-robust methods. I find that the conclusions of Clarida, Galí, and Gernter (2000) that policy was inactive before 1979 are robust, but the evidence over the Volcker-Greenspan periods is inconclusive. I show that this is in fact consistent with policy being active over that period. Problems of identification also arise because policy reaction has been more gradual recently. At a methodological level, the paper demonstrates that identification issues should be taken seriously, and that identification-robust methods can be informative even when they produce wide confidence sets. (E31, E32, E52, E65,)

JEL-codes: E31 E32 E52 E65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.1.491
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