Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109055 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2012/9 [rev.]
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
We investigate the relative roles of monetary policy and shocks in causing the Great Moderation, using indirect inference where a DSGE model is tested for its ability to mimic a VAR describing the data. A New Keynesian model with a Taylor Rule and one with the Optimal Timeless Rule are both tested. The latter easily dominates, whether calibrated or estimated, implying that the Fed's policy in the 1970s was neither inadequate nor a cause of indeterminacy; it was both optimal and essentially unchanged during the 1980s. By implication it was largely the reduced shocks that caused the Great Moderation - among them monetary policy shocks the Fed injected into inflation.
Subjects: 
Great Moderation
Causes
Indirect inference
Test
Wald statistics
JEL: 
E42
E52
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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