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Forward Guidance as a Monetary Policy Rule

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  • Mitsuru Katagiri

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Many central banks implement forward guidance according to an implicit or explicit policy rule in practice, and thus it is expected to influence the economy by changing expectations formation of private agents. In this paper, I investigate the effects of forward guidance particularly via expectations formation by formulating forward guidance as a monetary policy rule in a non-linear new Keynesian model. A quantitative analysis using the U.S. and Japanese data implies that a rule-based forward guidance significantly mitigates a decline in inflation and output growth in a crisis period via changing expectations formation.

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  • Mitsuru Katagiri, 2016. "Forward Guidance as a Monetary Policy Rule," Bank of Japan Working Paper Series 16-E-6, Bank of Japan.
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    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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