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Monetary Policy and TIPS Yields before the Crisis

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  • Gerlach, Stefan
  • Moretti, Laura

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We make three points. First, the decade before the financial crisis in 2007 was characterized by a collapse in the yield on TIPS. Second, estimated VARs for the federal funds rate and the TIPS yield show that while monetary policy shocks had negligible effects on the TIPS yield, shocks to the latter had one-to-one effects on the federal funds rate. Third, these findings can be rationalized in a New Keynesian model.

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  • Gerlach, Stefan & Moretti, Laura, 2011. "Monetary Policy and TIPS Yields before the Crisis," CEPR Discussion Papers 8560, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
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    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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