Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152757 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 323
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We study identiÞcation in a class of three-equation monetary models. We argue that these models are typically not identiÞed. For any given exactly identiÞed model, we provide an algorithm that generates a class of equivalent models that have the same reduced form. We use our algorithm to provide four examples of the consequences of lack of identiÞcation. In our Þrst two examples we show that it is not possible to tell whether the policy rule or the Phillips curve is forward or backward looking. In example 3 we establish an equivalence between a class of models proposed by Benhabib and Farmer [1] and the standard new-Keynesian model. This result is disturbing since equilibria in the Benhabib-Farmer model are typically indeterminate for a class of policy rules that generate determinate outcomes in the new-Keynesian model. In example 4, we show that there is an equivalence between determinate and indeterminate models even if one knows the structural equations of the model.
Subjects: 
IdentiÞcation
indeterminacy
new-Keynesian model
transparency
JEL: 
C39
C62
D51
E52
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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