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Data Uncertainty and the Role of Money as an Information Variable for Monetary Policy Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Guenter Coenen () (European Central Bank)
Andrew Levin () (Federal Reserve Board, Washington)
Volker Wieland () (Goehte University Frankfurt and CFS)
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In this study, we perform a quantitative assessment of the role of money as an indicator variable for monetary policy in the euro area. We document the magnitude of revisions to euro area-wide data on output, prices, and money, and find that monetary aggregates have a potentially significant role in providing information about current real output. We then proceed to analyze the information content of money in a forward-looking model in which monetary policy is optimally determined subject to incomplete information about the true state of the economy. We show that monetary aggregates may have substantial information content in an environment with high variability of output measurement errors, low variability of money demand shocks, and a strong contemporaneous linkage between money demand and real output. As a practical matter, however, we conclude that money has fairly limited information content as an indicator of contemporaneous aggregate demand in the euro area.
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Article Paper Gunter Coenen & Andrew Levin & Volker Wieland, 2001.
"Data uncertainty and the role of money as an information variable for monetary policy ,"
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
2001-54, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
[Downloadable!] Andrew T. Levin & Gunter Coenen & Volker Wieland, 2001.
"Data uncertainty and the role of money as an information variable for monetary policy ,"
Working Paper Series
084, European Central Bank.
[Downloadable!] Coenen, Günter & Levin, Andrew & Wieland, Volker, 2003.
"Data Uncertainty and the Role of Money as an Information Variable for Monetary Policy ,"
CEPR Discussion Papers
3812, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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