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Modest policy interventions

The authors present a framework for computing and evaluating linear projections of macro variables conditional on hypothetical paths of monetary policy. A modest policy intervention is a change in policy that does not significantly shift agents' beliefs about policy regime and does not generate quantitatively important expectations-formation effects of the kind Lucas (1976) emphasizes. The framework is applied to an econometric model of U.S. postwar monetary policy behavior. It finds that a rich class of interventions routinely considered by the Federal Reserve are modest and their impacts can be reliably forecast by an accurately identified linear model. Moreover, modest interventions can matter: They may shift the projected paths and probability distributions of macro variables in economically meaningful ways.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2002-19

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Monetary policy
Forecasting
Vector autoregression

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Leeper, Eric M.
Zha, Tao
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
(wo)
Atlanta, GA
(wann)
2002

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Leeper, Eric M.
  • Zha, Tao
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Entstanden

  • 2002

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