Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70639 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2007-14
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
Should a central bank accommodate energy price shocks? Should the central bank use core inflation or headline inflation with the volatile energy component in its Taylor rule? To answer these questions, we build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with energy use, durable goods, and nominal rigidities to study the effects of an energy price shock and its impact on the macroeconomy when the central bank follows a Taylor rule. We then study how the economy performs under alternative parameterizations of the rule with different weights on headline and core inflation after an increase in the energy price. Our simulation results indicate that a central bank using core inflation in its Taylor rule does better than one using headline inflation because the output drop is less severe. In general, we show that the lower the weight on energy price inflation in the Taylor rule, the impact of an energy price increase on gross domestic product and inflation is also lower.
Subjects: 
energy prices
business cycles
durable goods
nominal rigidities
monetary transmission mechanism
JEL: 
E32
Q43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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