MONETARY POLICY, INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT: IN DEFENSE OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE

Nicolas Groshenny

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Abstract: To what extent did deviations from the Taylor rule between 2002 and 2006 help to promote price stability and maximum sustainable employment? To address that question, I estimate a New Keynesian model with unemployment and perform a counterfactual experiment where monetary policy strictly follows a Taylor rule over the period 2002:Q1–2006:Q4. I find that such a policy would have generated a sizeable increase in unemployment and resulted in an undesirably low rate of inflation. Around mid-2004, when the counterfactual deviates the most from the actual series, the model indicates that the probability of an unemployment rate greater than 8% would have been as high as 80%, whereas the probability of an inflation rate above 1% would have been close to zero.

Date: 2013-09
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Published in Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013, 17 (6), pp.1311-1329. ⟨10.1017/S1365100512000053⟩

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Journal Article: MONETARY POLICY, INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT: IN DEFENSE OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE (2013)
Working Paper: Monetary Policy, Inflation and Unemployment In Defense of the Federal Reserve (2010)
Working Paper: Monetary policy, inflation and unemployment. In Defense of the Federal Reserve (2010)
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DOI: 10.1017/S1365100512000053

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