Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and the Design of Interest Rate Rules

40 Pages Posted: 26 May 2011 Last revised: 25 Nov 2022

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Jordi Galí

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

J. David Lopez-Salido

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Javier Vallés

Government of the Kingdom of Spain - Economic Bureau of the President

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Date Written: March 2004

Abstract

We introduce rule-of-thumb consumers in an otherwise standard dynamic sticky price model, and show how their presence can change dramatically the properties of widely used interest rate rules. In particular, the existence of a unique equilibrium is no longer guaranteed by an interest rate rule that satisfies the so called Taylor principle. Our findings call for caution when using estimates of interest rate rules in order to assess the merits of monetary policy in specific historical periods.

Suggested Citation

Gali, Jordi and Lopez-Salido, J. David and Vallés, Javier, Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and the Design of Interest Rate Rules (March 2004). NBER Working Paper No. w10392, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1853145

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