Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154164 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1731
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper examines whether the interest rate preferences of Federal Reserve Bank Presidents are subject to a regional bias. In order to evaluate the regional bias hypothesis, we augment individual Taylor rules for the Federal Reserve Bank Presidents (sample 1989 to 2006) with regional variables and test for their influence on the Presidents’ interest rate preferences. These preferences stem from FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) transcripts. Estimates based on the augmented Taylor rules reveal that the preferences of some Federal Reserve Bank Presidents were not free of a regional bias. Augmented Taylor rules with inertia, however, show that this finding could also be due to the presence of an interest rate smoothing motive.
Subjects: 
augmented Taylor rule
interest rate preferences
real-time data
regional bias
SUR model
JEL: 
C12
C30
D72
E58
ISBN: 
978-92-899-1139-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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