Macroeconomic Regimes

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Lieven Baele

Tilburg University - Department of Finance

Geert Bekaert

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance

Seonghoon Cho

School of Economics, Yonsei University

Koen Inghelbrecht

Ghent University - Department of Economics

Antonio Moreno

School of Economics and Business, University of Navarra

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Date Written: July 2014

Abstract

We estimate a New-Keynesian macro model accommodating regime-switching behavior in monetary policy and in macro shocks. Key to our estimation strategy is the use of survey-based expectations for inflation and output. Output and inflation shocks shift to the low volatility regime around 1985 and 1990, respectively. However, we also identify multiple shifts between accommodating and active monetary policy regimes, which play an as important role as shock volatility in driving the volatility of the macro variables. We provide new estimates of the onset and demise of the Great Moderation and quantify the relative role played by macro-shocks and monetary policy. The estimated rational expectations model exhibits indeterminacy in the mean square stability sense, mainly because monetary policy is excessively passive.

Keywords: Monetary policy, regime-switching, survey expectations, New-Keynesian models, Great Moderation, macroeconomic volatility, Phillips Curve, Determinacy

JEL Classification: E31, E32, E52, E58, C42, C53

Suggested Citation

Baele, Lieven and Bekaert, Geert and Cho, Seonghoon and Inghelbrecht, Koen and Moreno, Antonio, Macroeconomic Regimes (July 2014). Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 70, pp. 51-71, 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1845483 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1845483

Lieven Baele

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Geert Bekaert (Contact Author)

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance ( email )

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Seonghoon Cho

School of Economics, Yonsei University ( email )

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Koen Inghelbrecht

Ghent University - Department of Economics ( email )

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Antonio Moreno

School of Economics and Business, University of Navarra ( email )

Ed. Amigos
Pamplona, Navarra 31009
Spain

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