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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809280903321

Autore

Bilbiie Florin

Titolo

Asset Market Participation, Monetary Policy Rules, and the Great Inflation / / Florin Bilbiie, Roland Straub

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-6796-8

1-4527-8747-6

1-282-58659-9

9786613822536

1-4519-9219-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (34 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

StraubRoland

Soggetti

Inflation (Finance)

Monetary policy

Banks and Banking

Finance: General

Inflation

Macroeconomics

Price Level

Deflation

Business Fluctuations

Cycles

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Monetary Policy

Central Banks and Their Policies

Studies of Particular Policy Episodes

Economic History: Macroeconomics

Growth and Fluctuations: U.S

Canada: 1913-

Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: U.S

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Finance

Securities markets

Consumption



Hyperinflation

Real interest rates

Financial markets

Prices

National accounts

Financial services

Capital market

Economics

Interest rates

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 2006".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Limited Asset Market Participation and Monetary Policy: Some Theory""; ""III. Empirical Evidence""; ""IV. Change in Structure of Economy or in Distribution of Shocks?""; ""V. Conclusions""; ""General Model""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper argues that limited asset market participation is crucial in explaining U.S. macroeconomic performance and monetary policy before the 1980s, and their changes thereafter. We develop an otherwise standard sticky-price dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, which implies that at low asset-market participation rates, the interest rate elasticity of output (the slope of the IS curve) becomes positive - that is, "non-Keynesian." Remarkably, in that case, a passive monetary policy rule ensures equilibrium determinacy and maximizes welfare. Consequently, we argue that the policy of the Federal Reserve System in the pre-Volcker era, often associated with a passive monetary policy rule, was closer to optimal than conventional wisdom suggests and may thus have remained unchanged at a fundamental level thereafter. We provide institutional and empirical evidence for our hypothesis, in the latter case using Bayesian estimation techniques, and show that our model is able to explain most features of the "Great Inflation.".