Do People Understand Monetary Policy?

Carlos Carvalho and Fernanda Nechio

No 618, Textos para discussão from Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil)

Abstract: We combine questions from the Michigan Survey about the future path of prices, interest rates, and unemployment to investigate whether households are aware of the basic features of U.S. monetary policy. Our Öndings support the view that at least some groups of households form their expectations about the future path of interest rates, ináation, and unemployment in a way that is consistent with those features. However, we also document a large degree of variation in the pattern of household responses over the business cycle. In particular, the negative relationship between unemployment and interest rates that is apparent in the data only shows up unequivocally in householdsíanswers during periods of labor market weakness.

Pages: 30p
Date: 2013-10
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