Understanding the New-Keynesian Model when Monetary Policy Switches Regimes / Roger E.A. Farmer, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farmer, Roger E.A.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Waggoner, Daniel F.

Zha, Tao.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12965.

NBER working paper series no. w12965

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.

Summary:

This paper studies a New-Keynesian model in which monetary policy may switch between regimes. We derive sufficient conditions for indeterminacy that are easy to implement and we show that the necessary and sufficient condition for determinacy, provided by Davig and Leeper, is necessary but not sufficient. More importantly, we use a two-regime model to show that indeterminacy in a passive regime may spill over to an active regime, no matter how active the latter regime is. As a result, a passive monetary policy is more damaging than has been previously thought. Our results imply that the propagation of shocks in an active regime, such as that of the Federal Reserve in the post-1982 period, may be substantially affected by the possibility of a return to a passive regime of the kind that was followed in the 1960s and 1970s.

Notes:

Print version record

March 2007.