Alternative Monetary Policy Rules: A Comparison with Historical Settings for the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan

Bennett McCallum

No 7725, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper conducts counterfactual historical analysis of several monetary policy rules by contrasting actual settings of instrument variables with values that would have been specified by the rules in response to prevailing conditions. Of particular interest is whether major policy mistakes, judged ex post, would have been prevented by candidate rules. The rules studied include those of Taylor and McCallum, previously considered by Alison Stuart, plus several additional combinations of instrument and target variables. The time spans examined are 1962-1998 for the U.S. and U.K., and 1972-1998 for Japan. In addition to various substantive findings, the paper develops several methodological arguments. A surprising result is that rules' messages are evidently more dependent upon the specification of their instrument than their target variable.

JEL-codes: E42 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-06
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Published as Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Vol. 86/1 (Winter 2000): pp. 49-79

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