Monetary Policy Matters: New Evidence Basedon a New Shock Measure
October 1, 2010
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Summary
Conventional VAR and non-VAR methods of identifying the effects of monetary policy shocks on the economy have found a negative output response to monetary tightening using U.S. data over the 1960s-1990s. However, we show that these methods fail to find this contractionary effect when the sample is restricted to the period since the 1980s, apparently due to changes in the policymaking environment that reduce their effectiveness. Identifying policy shocks using Fed Funds futures data, we recover the contractionary effect of monetary tightening on output and find that almost half of output variation over the period appears due to policy shocks.
Subject: Central bank policy rate, Econometric analysis, Financial institutions, Financial services, Futures, Industrial production, Production, Structural vector autoregression, Vector autoregression
Keywords: Central bank policy rate, contractionary monetary policy, Fed Funds Futures, Fed Funds futures contracts, Fed Funds futures data, Fed Funds Futures market, fed funds rate, Fed policymaker, FOMC, Futures, Industrial production, Monetary policy, monetary policy shock, price level, reaction function, shock measure, Structural vector autoregression, VAR estimation, Vector autoregression, WP
Pages:
65
Volume:
2010
DOI:
Issue:
230
Series:
Working Paper No. 2010/230
Stock No:
WPIEA2010230
ISBN:
9781455208951
ISSN:
1018-5941
