Monetary policy with private information: a role for monetary targets

This paper examines the optimal design of a set of legislative rules which balances credibility in monetary policy when the central banker has some private information. The main result is that the best legislative package should include a monetary target set by Congress, a targeting horizon consisti...

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Autor: García de Paso Gómez, José Isidoro
Formato: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:1993
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/64198
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/64198
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Monetary policy
Política monetaria
Estructura económica
Descrição
Resumo:This paper examines the optimal design of a set of legislative rules which balances credibility in monetary policy when the central banker has some private information. The main result is that the best legislative package should include a monetary target set by Congress, a targeting horizon consisting of one period of time and a small punishment on the central banker if it deviates from the target. Moreover, it is shown that both the discretionary and the average targeting approaches to monetary policy are nested into our more comprehensive approach.