Arbeitspapier

Monetary Policy, Inflation Illusion and the Taylor Principle – An Experimental Study

We develop a simple experimental setting to evaluate the role of the Taylor principle, which holds that the nominal interest rate has to respond more than one-for-one to fluctuations in the inflation rate. In our setting, the average infl ation rate fluctuates around the inflation target if the computerized central bank obeys the Taylor principle. If the Taylor principle is violated, then the average infl ation rate persistently deviates from the target. We find that these deviations from the target are less pronounced, if inflation rates cannot be as readily observed as nominal interest rates. This result is consistent with the interpretation that subjects underestimate the influence of inflation on the real return to savings if the infl ation rate is only observed ex post.

ISBN
978-3-86788-457-0
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 402

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Monetary Policy
Design of Experiments: General
Thema
Taylor principle
interest rate rule
inflation illusion
laboratory experiment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Luhan, Wolfgang J.
Scharler, Johann
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
(wo)
Essen
(wann)
2013

DOI
doi:10.4419/86788457
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Luhan, Wolfgang J.
  • Scharler, Johann
  • Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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