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On the Equivalence of Money Growth and Interest Rate Policy

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  • Andreas Schabert

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Central bank behavior is often summarized by simple rules for operat-ing targets, i.e., for a short-run nominal interest rate or for a money growth rate. In this paper we examine conditions under which these rules lead to identical fundamental solutions of a conventional business cycle model. When prices are flexible, forward looking interest rate rules can be equivalent to money growth policy. In particular, the consumption Euler equation implies that constant money growth is equivalent to a passive interest rate regime, while an active interest rate rule corresponds to an accommodating money growth policy. When prices are sticky, equivalence further requires either interest rate policy or households’ behavior to be history dependent. However, a central bank, which controls the money growth rate, cannot implement a sequence of nominal interest rates satisfying Taylor’s (1993) rule on a saddle stable equilibrium path.

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Paper provided by Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow in its series Working Papers with number 2003_6.

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Cited by:
  1. Ibrahim Chowdhury & Andreas Schabert, . "Assessing Money Supply Rules," Working Papers 2003_9, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow, revised May 2003.
  2. Andreas Schabert, 2005. "Money Supply and the Implementation of Interest Rate Targets," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 05-059/2, Tinbergen Institute.
  3. Ceri Davies & Max Gillman & Michal Kejak, 2012. "Deriving the Taylor Principle when the Central Bank Supplies Money," CEU Working Papers 2012_13, Department of Economics, Central European University, revised 23 Jul 2012.
  4. Andreas Schabert, 2005. "Money supply and the implementation of interest rate targets," Working Paper Series 483, European Central Bank.

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