Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84685 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
External MPC Unit Discussion Paper No. 06
Publisher: 
Bank of England, External Monetary Policy Committee Unit, London
Abstract: 
This paper updates and extends Friedman's (1972) evidence on the lag between monetary policy actions and the response of inflation. Our evidence is based on UK and US data for the period 1953 2001 on money growth rates, inflation, and interest rates, as well as annual data on money growth and inflation. We reaffirm Friedman's result that it takes over a year before monetary policy actions have their peak effect on inflation. This result has persisted despite numerous changes in monetary policy arrangements in both countries. Similarly, advances in information processing and in financial market sophistication do not appear to have substantially shortened the lag. The empirical evaluation of dynamic general equilibrium models needs to be extended to include an assessment of these models' ability to account for the monetary transmission lags found in the data.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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