Optimal Monetary Policy in a New Keynesian Model with Habits in Consumption

Campbell Leith, Ioana Moldovan () and Raffaele Rossi

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2012, vol. 15, issue 3, 416-435

Abstract: In this paper we consider the implications of habits for optimal monetary policy, when those habits either exist at the level of the aggregate basket of consumption goods (`superficial' habits) or at the level of individual goods (`deep' habits: see Ravn, Schmitt-Grohe, and Uribe (2006)). External habits generate an additional distortion in the economy and create new trade-offs for optimal policy, as the policy maker does not respond as aggressively to technology shocks in order to avoid exacerbating the habits externality. This can dramatically affect both the parameterization of optimal simple rules, as well as their determinacy properties. These effects are particularly strong when habits are of the deep kind. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Consumption habits; Nominal inertia; Optimal monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E30 E61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2012.03.001

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