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The empirics of monetary policy rules in open economies
Author(s) -
Clarida Richard H.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of finance and economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1099-1158
pISSN - 1076-9307
DOI - 10.1002/ijfe.168
Subject(s) - monetary policy , economics , inflation targeting , exchange rate , inflation (cosmology) , currency , monetary economics , taylor rule , open economy , macroeconomics , central bank , keynesian economics , international economics , physics , theoretical physics
Abstract This paper uses the empirical framework for formulating and estimating forward looking monetary policy rules developed in Clarida, Gali and Gertler (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001) and Clarida (2000) to assess what we know, don't know, and can't tell about monetary policy making in an open economy with an (implicit) inflation target. Among the issues discussed are: the relationship between structural VAR models of monetary policy and exchange rates and estimates of forward‐looking Taylor rules; the relationship between inflation targeting and leaning against the (exchange rate) wind; why central bankers are averse to even wide‐band target zones; quantifying stresses and costs of a one‐size‐fits‐all monetary policy for the members of a monetary union or currency bloc. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.