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Assessing Australian Monetary Policy in the Twenty-First Century

Isaac Gross and Andrew Leigh

No 9959, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Using the Reserve Bank of Australia’s MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in which the cash rate is set according to an optimal simple rule. We find that monetary policy played a crucial role in avoiding a potential recession in 2001 and mitigating the downturn in 2008-2009. By contrast we find that the cash rate was too high during 2016-2019, keeping inflation below the Reserve Bank’s target band. Optimal monetary policy in 2016-2019 would have involved a substantially lower cash rate and would have produced significantly better employment outcomes.

Keywords: optimal monetary policy; unemployment; output gap; inflation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E47 E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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