Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/48463 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
W.E.P. - Würzburg Economic Papers No. 41
Publisher: 
University of Würzburg, Department of Economics, Würzburg
Abstract: 
The last years have witnessed a sharp increase of interest in monetary policy rules (see Taylor [1999]). This normative branch of monetary policy tries to evaluate the performance of alternative monetary policy rules in terms of associated monetary policy outcomes. Nevertheless this exercise is crucially based on the assumption that key parameters of the model are realistically specified. This holds in particular true for the preference vector of the central bank which trades off the individual goal variables of monetary policy and the degree of forward lookingness in the Phillips curve and the IS equation. Based on matching moments and the implied autocorrelations and cross correlations we present evidence for the USA covering the term of Allan Greenspan (1987:4- 2002:2) that hybrid specifications of the Phillips curve and the IS-curve are characterized by approximately 60% of backward looking economic agents. The predominant goal of monetary policy is price stability and financial market stability. Output gap stabilizationonly seems to play a minor role as an independent goal for the conduct of monetary policy.
Subjects: 
New Keyenesian Macro Model
hybrid Phillips curve
hybrid IS curve
forward looking behaviour
rule-of-thumb behaviour
calibration
JEL: 
C51
E52
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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