Risk management-driven policy rate gap

Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo and Gabriela Nodari

CAMA Working Papers from Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: We employ real-time data available to the US monetary policy makers to estimate a Taylor rule augmented with a measure of financial uncertainty over the period 1969-2008. We find evidence in favor of a systematic response to financial uncertainty over and above that to expected inflation, output gap, and output growth. However, this evidence regards the Greenspan-Bernanke period only. Focusing on this period, the “risk-management” approach is found to be responsible for monetary policy easings for up to 75 basis points of the federal funds rate.

Keywords: Risk management-driven policy rate gap; uncertainty; monetary policy; Taylor rules; real-time data. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C2 E4 E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2018-07
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