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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817303403321

Autore

Berger Wolfram

Titolo

International policy coordination and simple monetary policy rules / / Wolfram Berger and Helmut Wagner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.], : International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., c2006

ISBN

1-4623-5888-8

1-4527-9252-6

1-283-51585-7

1-4519-8500-2

9786613828309

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (28 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/06/164

Altri autori (Persone)

WagnerHelmut <1951->

Soggetti

Economic policy - Econometric models

Monetary policy - Econometric models

Prices - Econometric models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. THE MODEL""; ""III. WELFARE, OUTPUT AND CONSUMPTION ""; ""IV. OPTIMAL MONETARY POLICY AND POLICY COORDINATION ""; ""V. SIMPLE RULES AND WELFARE""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper studies the optimal design of monetary policy in an optimizing two-country sticky price model. We suppose that the production sequence of final consumption goods stretches across both countries and is associated with vertical trade. Prices of final consumption goods are sticky in the consumer's currency. Pursuing an inward-looking policy, as suggested in recent work, is not optimal in this set-up. We also ask which simple, i.e. non-optimal, targeting rule best supports the welfare maximizing policy. The results hinge critically on the degree of price flexibility and the relative importance of cost-push and productivity shocks. In many cases, a strict targeting of price indices like producer or consumer price indices is dominated by rules that allow for some fluctuations in prices such as nominal income or



monetary targeting.