Arbeitspapier

Inflation in the great recession and new keynesian models

It has been argued that existing DSGE models cannot properly account for the evolution of key macroeconomic variables during and following the recent Great Recession, and that models in which inflation depends on economic slack cannot explain the recent muted behavior of inflation, given the sharp drop in output that occurred in 2008-09. In this paper, we use a standard DSGE model available prior to the recent crisis and estimated with data up to the third quarter of 2008 to explain the behavior of key macroeconomic variables since the crisis. We show that as soon as the financial stress jumped in the fourth quarter of 2008, the model successfully predicts a sharp contraction in economic activity along with a modest and more protracted decline in inflation. The model does so even though inflation remains very dependent on the evolution of both economic activity and monetary policy. We conclude that while the model considered does not capture all short-term fluctuations in key macroeconomic variables, it has proven surprisingly accurate during the recent crisis and the subsequent recovery.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Staff Report ; No. 618

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Thema
Great Recession
fundamental inflation
DSGE models
Bayesian estimation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Del Negro, Marco
Giannoni, Marc P.
Schorfheide, Frank
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(wo)
New York, NY
(wann)
2013

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Del Negro, Marco
  • Giannoni, Marc P.
  • Schorfheide, Frank
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Entstanden

  • 2013

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