Monetary Policy Strategies

The paper considers the merits of rules and discretion for monetary policy when the structure of the macroeconomic model and the probability distributions of disturbances are not well defined. It is argued that when it is costly to delay policy reactions to seldom-experienced shocks until formal alg...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1988
Series:IMF Working Papers
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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653 |a Depository Institutions 
653 |a Inflation 
653 |a Banks 
653 |a Banks and banking 
653 |a Monetary economics 
653 |a Deflation 
653 |a Purchasing power parity 
653 |a Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General 
653 |a Micro Finance Institutions 
653 |a Exchange rate adjustments 
653 |a Monetary aggregates 
653 |a Currency 
653 |a Mortgages 
653 |a Money 
653 |a Money supply 
653 |a Price Level 
653 |a Foreign Exchange 
653 |a Banks and Banking 
653 |a Prices 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Banking 
653 |a Exchange rates 
653 |a Price stabilization 
653 |a Money and Monetary Policy 
653 |a Foreign exchange 
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520 |a The paper considers the merits of rules and discretion for monetary policy when the structure of the macroeconomic model and the probability distributions of disturbances are not well defined. It is argued that when it is costly to delay policy reactions to seldom-experienced shocks until formal algorithmic learning has been accomplished, and when time consistency problems are significant, a mixed strategy that combines a simple verifiable rule with discretion is attractive. The paper also discusses mechanisms for mitigating credibility problems and emphasizes that arguments against various types of simple rules lose their force under a mixed strategy