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Title: Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Determinacy
Authors: Singh, Aarti
Stone, Sophie
School of Economics
Keywords: Asset prices
monetary policy
determinacy
financial accelerator
Issue Date: Mar-2012
Publisher: School of Economics
Series/Report no.: 2012-06
Abstract: We study whether central banks should respond to asset prices in their policy rules. Using a modified version of Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist’s (1999) model—a standard dynamic stochastic general equilibrium New Keynesian model with a financial accelerator effect—we explore how equilibrium determinacy is impacted when the central bank reacts to asset prices. Our results indicate that by reacting to asset price movements in its Taylor-type nominal interest rate feedback rule, a central bank makes determinacy of the rational expectations equilibrium more likely relative to a standard policy rule where the central bank does not react to asset prices.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8187
Department/Unit/Centre: School of Economics
Type of Work: Working Paper
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