Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100848 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2002-19
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
The authors present a framework for computing and evaluating linear projections of macro variables conditional on hypothetical paths of monetary policy. A modest policy intervention is a change in policy that does not significantly shift agents' beliefs about policy regime and does not generate quantitatively important expectations-formation effects of the kind Lucas (1976) emphasizes. The framework is applied to an econometric model of U.S. postwar monetary policy behavior. It finds that a rich class of interventions routinely considered by the Federal Reserve are modest and their impacts can be reliably forecast by an accurately identified linear model. Moreover, modest interventions can matter: They may shift the projected paths and probability distributions of macro variables in economically meaningful ways.
Subjects: 
Monetary policy
Forecasting
Vector autoregression
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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