Central bank misperceptions and the role of money in interest rate rules

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Research with Keynesian-style models has emphasized the importance of the output gap for policies aimed at controlling inflation while declaring monetary aggregates largely irrelevant. Critics, however, have argued that these models need to be modified to account for observed money growth and inflation trends, and that monetary trends may serve as a useful cross-check for monetary policy. We identify an important source of monetary trends in form of persistent central bank misperceptions regarding potential output. Simulations with historical output gap estimates indicate that such misperceptions may induce persistent errors in monetary policy and sustained trends in money growth and inflation. If interest rate prescriptions derived from Keynesian-style models are augmented with a cross-check against money-based estimates of trend inflation, inflation control is improved substantially.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: NBB Working Paper ; No. 147

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles ; Demand for Money ; Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects ; Monetary Policy ; Central Banks and Their Policies
• Subject: monetary policy under uncertainty ; money ; output gap uncertainty ; quantity theory and Taylor rules ; Geldpolitik ; Produktionspotenzial ; Zinspolitik ; Quantitätstheorie ; Taylor-Regel ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Beck, Guenter ; Wieland, Volker
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): National Bank of Belgium
• (where): Brussels
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/144360
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET