The Monetary policy rules in Europe : heterogeneity and common patters
Vasicek, Borek
Bacaria i Colom, Jordi, 1952- , dir. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa

Data:	2009
Descripció:	21 p.
Resum:	The objective of this study is the empirical identification of the monetary policy rules pursued in individual countries of EU before and after the launch of European Monetary Union. In particular, we have employed an estimation of the augmented version of the Taylor rule (TR) for 25 countries of the EU in two periods (1992-1998, 1999-2006). While uniequational estimation methods have been used to identify the policy rules of individual central banks, for the rule of the European Central Bank has been employed a dynamic panel setting. We have found that most central banks really followed some interest rate rule but its form was usually different from the original TR (proposing that domestic interest rate responds only to domestic inflation rate and output gap). Crucial features of policy rules in many countries have been the presence of interest rate smoothing as well as response to foreign interest rate. Any response to domestic macroeconomic variables have been missing in the rules of countries with inflexible exchange rate regimes and the rules consisted in mimicking of the foreign interest rates. While we have found response to long-term interest rates and exchange rate in rules of some countries, the importance of monetary growth and asset prices has been generally negligible. The Taylor principle (the response of interest rates to domestic inflation rate must be more than unity as a necessary condition for achieving the price stability) has been confirmed only in large economies and economies troubled with unsustainable inflation rates. Finally, the deviation of the actual interest rate from the rule-implied target rate can be interpreted as policy shocks (these deviation often coincided with actual turbulent periods).
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Llengua:	Anglès
Titulació:	Economia Aplicada [5601030]
Col·lecció:	Facultat d'Economia i Empresa. Departament d'Economia Aplicada. Treballs de recerca de postgrau
Document:	Treball de fi de postgrau
Matèria:	Política monetària ; Unió Europea, Països de la ; Anàlisi de dades de panel

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