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Monetary Policy in the Euro Area: Active or Passive?

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  • Alice Albonico
  • Guido Ascari
  • Qazi Haque

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We estimate a medium-scale DSGE model for the Euro Area allowing and testing for indeterminacy since the introduction of the euro until mid-2023. Our estimates suggest that monetary policy in the euro area was passive, leading to indeterminacy and self-fulfilling dynamics. Indeterminacy dramatically alters the transmission of fundamental shocks, particularly for inflation whose responses are inconsistent with standard economic theory. Inflation increases following a positive supply or a negative demand shock. Consequently, demand shocks look like supply shocks and vice versa, making the dynamics of the model under indeterminacy challenging to interpret. However, this finding is not robust across different assumptions on the way the sunspot shock is specified in the estimation. Both under determinacy and indeterminacy, the model estimates a natural rate of interest that turned positive after the recent inflation episode.

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  • Alice Albonico & Guido Ascari & Qazi Haque, 2024. "Monetary Policy in the Euro Area: Active or Passive?," CAMA Working Papers 2024-34, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
    • Handle: RePEc:een:camaaa:2024-34
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    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • C11 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Bayesian Analysis: General
    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General

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