Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24839 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1444
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
We analyze optimal monetary policy when a central bank has to learn about an unknown coefficient that determines the effect of surprise inflation on aggregate demand. We derive the optimal policy under active learning and compare it to two limiting cases-certainty equivalence policy and cautionary policy, in which learning takes place passively. Our novel result is that the two passive learning policies represent an upper and lower bound for the active learning policy, irrespective of the state of the economy.
Subjects: 
Parameter uncertainty
learning
monetary policy
JEL: 
C02
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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