Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53933 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Working Paper No. 2007-19
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
This paper uses real-time briefing forecasts prepared for the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to provide estimates of historical changes in the design of U.S. monetary policy and in the implied central-bank target for inflation. Empirical results support a description of policy with an effective inflation target of roughly 7 percent in the 1970s. Moreover, the evidence suggests that mismeasurement of the degree of economic slack was largely irrelevant for explaining the Great Inflation while favouring a passive-policy description of monetary policy. FOMC transcripts provide a neglected interpretation of the source of passive policyintermediate targeting of monetary aggregates.
Subjects: 
Central bank research
Monetary aggregates
Monetary policy implementation
JEL: 
E3
E5
N1
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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