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Some Notes on Monetary Policy Rules with Uncertainty
Staff Working Paper 2003-16
Gabriel Srour
The author explores the role that Taylor-type rules can play in monetary policy, given the degree of uncertainty in the economy. The optimal rule is derived from a simple infinite-horizon model of the monetary transmission mechanism, with only additive uncertainty.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Monetary policy and uncertainty
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E52
Bank Lending, Credit Shocks, and the Transmission of Canadian Monetary Policy
Staff Working Paper 2003-9
Joseph Atta-Mensah,
Ali Dib
The authors use a dynamic general-equilibrium model to study the role financial frictions play as a transmission mechanism of Canadian monetary policy, and to evaluate the real effects of exogenous credit shocks. Financial frictions, which are modelled as spreads between deposit and loan interest rates, are assumed to depend on economic activity as well as on credit shocks.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Monetary policy framework,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E32,
E4,
E5,
E51
A Comparison of Twelve Macroeconomic Models of the Canadian Economy
Technical Report No. 94
Denise Côté,
John Kuszczak,
Jean-Paul Lam,
Ying Liu,
Pierre St-Amant
In this report, the authors examine and compare twelve private and public sector models of the Canadian economy with respect to their paradigm, structure, and dynamic properties. These open-economy models can be grouped into two economic paradigms.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Technical reports
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Monetary policy and uncertainty
JEL Code(s):
C,
C5,
E,
E5,
E52,
E58
Money in the Bank (of Canada)
Technical Report No. 93
David Longworth
With the demise of monetary targeting over the past 20 years in many major countries, the question has arisen as to whether central banks should look at money at all when formulating and conducting monetary policy.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Technical reports
Topic(s):
Monetary aggregates,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E50,
E51,
E52
December 20, 2002
Transparency and the Response of Interest Rates to the Publication of Macroeconomic Data
The benefits of transparency—the outcome of the measures taken by the central bank to allow financial markets and economic agents to understand the factors it takes into account in formulating monetary policy—are now widely recognized. These benefits include smoother implementation of monetary policy and increased effectiveness as markets improve their ability to anticipate the Bank's policy decisions and account for them in their operations. How interest rates respond to the publication of macroeconomic data depends on the degree of transparency in monetary policy, as the rates will rise or fall as a reflection of the market's revised expectations. Before the Bank of Canada adopted initiatives to improve transparency, such as the inflation-control targets, the semi-annual publication of the Monetary Policy Report and Updates, and the fixed announcement dates, changes to the overnight rate created some volatility in interest rates, and publishing Canadian macroeconomic data did not appear to have a major impact on rates. This article shows how the Bank of Canada's steps towards greater transparency have increased the impact of Canadian data on short-term interest rates and have improved financial markets' understanding of how monetary policy decisions are taken.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Interest rates,
Monetary policy and uncertainty
The Performance and Robustness of Simple Monetary Policy Rules in Models of the Canadian Economy
Technical Report No. 92
Denise Côté,
John Kuszczak,
Jean-Paul Lam,
Ying Liu,
Pierre St-Amant
In this report, we evaluate several simple monetary policy rules in twelve private and public sector models of the Canadian economy. Our results indicate that none of the simple policy rules we examined is robust to model uncertainty, in that no single rule performs well in all models.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Technical reports
Topic(s):
Monetary policy and uncertainty
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E52,
E58
Alternative Public Spending Rules and Output Volatility
Staff Working Paper 2002-37
Jean-Paul Lam,
William Scarth
One of the central lessons learned from the Great Depression was that adjusting government spending each year to balance the budget increases the volatility of output.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Fiscal policy,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E52,
E58,
E6,
E62
Labour Markets, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy Regimes
Staff Working Paper 2002-32
David Andolfatto,
Scott Hendry,
Kevin Moran
We develop an equilibrium model of the monetary policy transmission mechanism that highlights information frictions in the market for money and search frictions in the market for labour.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Monetary policy and uncertainty,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E5
Habit Formation and the Persistence of Monetary Shocks
Staff Working Paper 2002-27
Hafedh Bouakez,
Emanuela Cardia,
Francisco Ruge-Murcia
This paper studies the persistent effects of monetary shocks on output. Previous empirical literature documents this persistence, but standard general-equilibrium models with sticky prices fail to generate output responses beyond the duration of nominal contracts.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
E4,
E5