Monetary policy rules and financial stress : does financial instability matter for monetary

Author

Baxa, Jaromír

Horvath, Roman

Vasicek, Borek

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada

Publication date

2011

Abstract

We examine whether and how main central banks responded to episodes of financial stress over the last three decades. We employ a new methodology for monetary policy rules estimation, which allows for time-varying response coefficients as well as corrects for endogeneity. This flexible framework applied to the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and Sweden together with a new financial stress dataset developed by the International Monetary Fund allows not only testing whether the central banks responded to financial stress but also detects the periods and type of stress that were the most worrying for monetary authorities and to quantify the intensity of policy response. Our findings suggest that central banks often change policy

Document Type

Working paper

Language

English

Subjects and keywords

Política monetària Models matemàtics

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open access

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