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Incertitude sur l'effet global ou sur les délais d'action de la politique monétaire : politique robuste et activisme

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Daniel Laskar
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We compare two cases of uncertainty which have led to traditional arguments for less activist monetary policies: One, where the uncertainty concerns the global effect of policy, as in Brainard (1967); and the other where the uncertainty is about the the lags, as in Friedman (1960). We show that a bayesian approach leads to similar results in both cases, but that it is only in the case of uncertainty about lags that an approach in terms of robustness (through a minimax criterion) necessarily leads to less activism. Moreover, in that case, the robust policy is even less activist than what a bayesian approach would give. JEL Classification: E50, E60, D81.

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Article provided by De Boeck Université in its journal Recherches économiques de Louvain.

Volume (Year): 73 (2007)
Issue (Month): 4 ()
Pages: 387-421
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Keywords: robust policy; uncertainty; activism;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
E50 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - General
E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

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