Monetary Policy Shocks: What Have We Learned and to What End? / Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, Charles L. Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christiano, Lawrence J.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Eichenbaum, Martin.

Evans, Charles L.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6400.

NBER working paper series no. w6400

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Monetary Policy Shocks

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1998.

Summary:

This paper reviews recent research that grapples with the question: What happens after an exogenous shock to monetary policy? We argue that this question is interesting because it lies at the center of a particular approach to assessing the empirical plausibility of structural economic models that can be used to think about systematic changes in monetary policy institutions and rules. The literature has not yet converged on a particular set of assumptions for identifying the effects of an exogenous shock to monetary policy. Nevertheless, there is considerable agreement about the qualitative effects of a monetary policy shock in the sense that inference is robust across a large subset of the identification schemes that have been considered in the literature. We document the nature of this agreement as it pertains to key economic aggregates.

Notes:

Print version record

February 1998.