The role of bank central operating procedures in an economy with productive government spending

We reexamine some of the issues related to the choice of the monetary policy instrument in a dynamic general equilibrium model exhibiting endogenous growth in which a fraction of productive government spending is Önanced by means of issuing currency. We evaluate the performance of four monetary inst...

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Authors: Caballé, Jordi|||0000-0003-0253-5634, Hromcová, Jana|||0000-0002-9933-4275
Format: article
Publication Date:2011
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:174244
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/174244
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s10614-010-9198-y
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Monetary policy targets
Productive government spending
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Summary:We reexamine some of the issues related to the choice of the monetary policy instrument in a dynamic general equilibrium model exhibiting endogenous growth in which a fraction of productive government spending is Önanced by means of issuing currency. We evaluate the performance of four monetary instruments: monetary aggregate targeting, nominal interest rate targeting, ináation rate targeting and real interest rate targeting. We show that a switch from any other targeting procedure towards the real interest rate targeting may be welfare improving even if the real interest rate targeting is a policy that delivers the most volatile consumption in the short run.