Arbeitspapier

Disagreement and monetary policy

Time-variation in disagreement about inflation expectations is a stylized fact in surveys, but little is known on how disagreement interacts with the efficacy of monetary policy. This paper fills this gap in providing theoretical predictions of monetary policy shocks for different levels of disagreement and testing these empirically. When disagreement is high, a dispersed information New Keynesian model predicts that a contractionary monetary policy shock leads to a short-run rise in inflation and inflation expectations, whereas both decline when disagreement is low. Estimating a smooth-transition model on U.S. data shows significantly different responses in inflation and inflation expectations consistent with theory.

ISBN
978-3-95729-399-2
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bundesbank Discussion Paper ; No. 29/2017

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Monetary Policy
Thema
disagreement
dispersed information
disanchoring of inflation expectations
monetary policy transmission
state-dependent effects of monetary policy
local projections

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Falck, Elisabeth
Hoffmann, Mathias
Hürtgen, Patrick
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Falck, Elisabeth
  • Hoffmann, Mathias
  • Hürtgen, Patrick
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Entstanden

  • 2017

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