How to Solve the Price Puzzle? A Meta-Analysis

Marek Rusnák, Tomas Havranek and Roman Horvath

No 2011/24, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: The short-run increase in prices following an unexpected tightening of monetary policy represents a frequently reported puzzle. Yet the puzzle is easy to explain away when all published models are quantitatively reviewed. We collect and examine about 1,000 point estimates of impulse responses from 70 articles using vector autoregressive models to study monetary transmission in various countries. We find some evidence of publication selection against the price puzzle in the literature, but our results also suggest that the reported puzzle is mostly caused by model misspecifications. Finally, the long-run response of prices to monetary policy shocks depends on the characteristics of the economy.

Keywords: Monetary policy transmission; Price puzzle; Meta-analysis; Publication selection bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2011-07, Revised 2011-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-mac and nep-mon
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