Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18918 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1280
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the empirical relevance of a new framework for monetary policy analysis in which the decision-makers are allowed to weight differently positive and negative deviations of inflation and output from the target values. Reduced-form and structural estimates of the central bank first order condition indicate that the preferences of the Fed have been highly asymmetric only before 1979, with the response to output contractions being larger than the response to output expansions of the same magnitude. This asymmetry is shown to induce an average inflation bias of 1.11% that appears to have substantially contributed to the great inflation of the 1960s and 1970s.
Subjects: 
asymmetric objective
nonlinear monetary policy rules
average inflation bias
JEL: 
E58
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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