Arbeitspapier
Discretion and the transmission lags of monetary policy
Monetary policy transmission lags create credibility problems for the inflationtargeting policy maker who acts under discretion. We show that if prices react to monetary policy with a longer lag than output, the welfare maximizing inflationtargeting policy implies no policy stabilization of cost-push shocks in the canonical New Keynesian model. The reason is simple: for the period monetary policy influences output, inflation is predetermined and the best discretionary policy is to stabilize the output gap fully. We find that money growth targeting comes close to replicating the welfare-maximizing policy under commitment if there are transmission lags.
- ISBN
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978-952-462-363-6
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers ; No. 8/2007
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Monetary Policy
Central Banks and Their Policies
Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
- Thema
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discretionary and stabilization bias
monetary policy
transmission lags
inflation targeting
money targeting
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kilponen, Juha
Leitemo, Kai
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Finland
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Helsinki
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2007
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kilponen, Juha
- Leitemo, Kai
- Bank of Finland
Entstanden
- 2007