Should monetary policy respond to asset price bubbles?: some experimental results

Andrew Filardo ()

No RWP 01-04, Research Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Abstract: Should central banks respond to asset price bubbles? This paper explores this monetary policy question in a hypothetical economy subject to asset price bubbles. Despite the highly stylized structure of the model, the results reveal several practical monetary policy lessons. First, a monetary authority should generally respond to asset prices as long as asset prices contain reliable information about inflation and output. Second, this finding holds even if a monetary authority cannot distinguish between fundamental and bubble asset price behavior. Third, a monetary authority?s desire to respond to asset prices falls dramatically as its preference to smooth interest rates rises. Finally, a monetary authority should not respond to asset prices if there is considerable uncertainty about the macroeconomic role of asset prices.

Keywords: Monetary policy; Asset pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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