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Asset Prices, Nominal Rigidities, and Monetary Policy

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Charles T. Carlstrom (Federal Reserve bank of Cleveland)
Timothy Fuerst (Bowling Green State University)

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Should monetary policy respond to asset prices? This paper analyzes this question from the vantage point of equilibrium determinacy. A central bank responding to asset prices is indirectly responding to firm profits. In a model with sticky prices, increases in inflation tend to lower firm profits so that a central bank responding to share prices implicitly weakens its overall response to inflation. This is the novel source of equilibrium indeterminacy highlighted in the paper. (Copyright: Elsevier)

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Volume (Year): 10 (2007)
Issue (Month): 2 (April)
Pages: 256-275
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Keywords: Monetary policy; Equilibrium determinacy; Interest rate rules;

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E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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  1. Fabio Milani, 2008. "Learning about the Interdependence between the Macroeconomy and the Stock Market," Working Papers 070819, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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