Discouraging Deviant Behavior in Monetary Economics / Lawrence Christiano, Yuta Takahashi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christiano, Lawrence.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Takahashi, Yuta.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24949.

NBER working paper series no. w24949

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.

Summary:

We consider a model in which monetary policy is governed by a Taylor rule. The model has a unique equilibrium near the steady state, but also has other equilibria. The introduction of a particular escape clause into monetary policy works like the Taylor principle to exclude the other equilibria. We reconcile our finding about the escape clause with the sharply different conclusion reached in Cochrane (2011). Atkeson et al. (2010) study a different version of the escape clause policy, but that version is fragile in that it lacks a crucial robustness property.

Notes:

Print version record

August 2018.