Dissecting Taylor Rules in a Structural VAR
January 1, 2010
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Summary
This paper uncovers Taylor rules from estimated monetary policy reactions using a structural VAR on U.S. data from 1959 to 2009. These Taylor rules reveal the dynamic nature of policy responses to different structural shocks. We find that U.S. monetary policy has been far more responsive over time to demand shocks than to supply shocks, and more aggressive toward inflation than output growth. Our estimated dynamic policy coefficients characterize the style of policy as a "bang-bang" control for the pre-1979 period and as a gradual control for the post-1979 period.
Subject: Business cycles, Central bank policy rate, Economic growth, Economic theory, Financial services, Inflation, Prices, Production, Production growth, Supply shocks
Keywords: Business cycles, Central bank policy rate, endogenous monetary policy, GDP deflator, Global, Inflation, inflation pressure, inflation volatility, interest rate, interest rate volatility, monetary policy, output growth, Production growth, spectral decomposition, structural VAR, Supply shocks, Taylor rule, WP
Pages:
27
Volume:
2010
DOI:
Issue:
020
Series:
Working Paper No. 2010/020
Stock No:
WPIEA2010020
ISBN:
9781451962291
ISSN:
1018-5941
