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Forecast‐Based Monetary Policy: The Case of Sweden
Author(s) -
Jansson Per,
Vredin Anders
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.458
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-2362
pISSN - 1367-0271
DOI - 10.1111/j.1367-0271.2003.00122.x
Subject(s) - monetary policy , economics , inflation (cosmology) , publication , central bank , inflation targeting , macroeconomics , monetary economics , forward guidance , credit channel , business , physics , theoretical physics , advertising
Central banks are dominant players in financial markets and economic policy. For both democratic and efficiency reasons, it is important that central banks' actions can be understood, predicted, and evaluated. Inflation‐targeting central banks that publish their forecasts provide unique opportunities for detailed studies of monetary policy based on real‐time data. This paper demonstrates how a central bank's forecasts can be used to identify two different forms of discretionary monetary policy: ‘policy shocks’ (deviations from systematic policy) and ‘judgements’ in forecasting.