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Monetary Policy Rules for the Euro Area: What Role for National Information?

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Paolo Angelini () (Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department)
Paolo Del Giovane (Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department)
Stefano Siviero (Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department)
Daniele Terlizzese (Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department)

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Using a simple multi-country econometric model covering the three main countries of the euro area, the paper focuses on the role that can be played by information at the national level in defining the monetary policy of the Union. We find that the performance of a central bank that chooses the nominal interest rate to minimize a standard quadratic loss function of area-wide inflation and output gap improves significantly if the reaction function includes national variables - as opposed to the case in which the interest rate reacts to area-wide variables only. Our results suggest that asymmetries within the euro area are relevant to the central bank; overall, we interpret them as making a case for exploiting the available national information in the conduct of the single monetary policy.

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Paper provided by Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department in its series Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) with number 457.

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Keywords: monetary policy rules; Eurosystem;

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E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
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