A quantitative exploration of the opportunistic approach to disinflation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Aksoy, Yunus; Orphanides, Athanasios; Small, David; Wieland, Volker; Wilcox, David
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors; University of London; Birkbeck University London; Goethe University Frankfurt; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3932
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2005.08.015
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 1607-1623
• 关键词: Inflation targeting; monetary policy; Interest rates; policy rules; disinflation

摘要

Under a conventional policy rule, a central bank adjusts its policy rate linearly according to the gap between inflation and its target, and the gap between output and its potential. Under the opportunistic approach to disinflation a central bank controls inflation aggressively when inflation is far from its target, but concentrates more on output stabilization when inflation is close to its target, allowing supply shocks and unforeseen fluctuations in aggregate demand to move inflation within a certain band. We use stochastic simulations of a small-scale rational expectations model to contrast the behavior of output and inflation under opportunistic and linear rules. Published by Elsevier B.V.