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Should Rules Be Simple?

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  • Levine, Paul

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The principal argument of the paper is that in an incomplete information setting, where the, private sector lacks information of government objectives and has to learn about the policy, rule by direct observation and estimation, simple "sub-optimal" rules may outperform the more complicated rule which is optimal under complete information. This result is demonstrated by simulations using an overlapping contract rational expectations model. The paper thus provides some formal reasoning to support arguments for simplicity associated with credibility and the need for the private sector to be able to monitor policy. Copyright 1992 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Economics of Planning.

Volume (Year): 25 (1992)
Issue (Month): 2 ()
Pages: 113-38

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Handle: RePEc:kap:ecopln:v:25:y:1992:i:2:p:113-38

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  1. Svensson, Lars E. O., 1999. "Price Stability as a Target for Monetary Policy: Defining and Maintaining Price Stability," Working Paper Series 91, Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden).
  2. Robert J. Tetlow & Peter von zur Muehlen, 1999. "Simplicity versus optimality the choice of monetary policy rules when agents must learn," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 1999-10, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  3. Woodford, M., 1999. "Optimal Monetary Policy Inertia.," Papers 666, Stockholm - International Economic Studies.
  4. Floden, Martin, 2000. "Endogenous monetary policy and the business cycle," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 44(8), pages 1409-1429, August.
  5. Levine, Paul & Pearlman, Joseph, 2010. "Robust monetary rules under unstructured model uncertainty," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 34(3), pages 456-471, March.

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