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Optimal Monetary Policy with Asymmetric Preferences for Output

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  • Cassou, Steven P.
  • Scott, Patrick
  • Vázquez Pérez, Jesús

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Using a model of an optimizing monetary authority which has preferences that weigh inflation and unemployment, Ruge-Murcia (2003, 2004) finds empirical evidence that the authority has asymmetric preferences for unemployment. We extend this model to weigh inflation and output and show that the empirical evidence using these series also supports an asymmetric preference hypothesis, only in our case, preferences are asymmetric for output. We also find evidence that the monetary authority targets potential output rather than some higher output level as would be the case in an extended Barro and Gordon (1983) model.

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  • Cassou, Steven P. & Scott, Patrick & Vázquez Pérez, Jesús, 2012. "Optimal Monetary Policy with Asymmetric Preferences for Output," DFAEII Working Papers 1988-088X, University of the Basque Country - Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II.
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