Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184424 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe [ISSN:] 2082-6737 [Volume:] 20 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] De Gruyter [Place:] Warsaw [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 35-51
Publisher: 
De Gruyter, Warsaw
Abstract: 
The aim of this study is to analyze the monetary policy rules in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, with public debt as an additional explanatory variable. We estimate linear rules by the GMM estimation and non-linear rules, using the Markov-switching model. Our findings suggest that in the Czech Republic and Poland the monetary authorities respond to growing public debt by lowering interest rates, while in Hungary the opposite may be observed. Moreover, we distinguish between passive and active monetary policy regimes and find that the degree of interest rate smoothing is lower and the response of the central banks to inflation and/or output gap is stronger in an active regime. In the passive regime, the output gap seems to be statistically insignificant.
Subjects: 
monetary policy
general government debt
Taylor rule
regime switching
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