Central Banks Going Long
40 Pages Posted: 28 Jun 2018
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Central Banks Going Long
Date Written: May 02, 2018
Abstract
Central banks have sometimes turned their attention to long-term interest rates as a target or as a diagnosis of policy. This paper describes two historical episodes when this happened - the US in 1942-51 and the UK in the 1960s - and uses a model of inflation dynamics to evaluate monetary policies that rely on going long. It concludes that these policies for the most part fail to keep inflation under control. A complementary methodological contribution is to re-state the classic problem of monetary policy through interest-rate rules in a continuous-time setting where shocks follow diffusions in order to integrate the endogenous determination of inflation and the term structure of interest rates.
Keywords: Taylor rule, yield curve, pegs, ceilings, affine models
JEL Classification: E310, E520, E580
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