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Monetary Policy Rules For An Open Economy

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  • Nicoletta Batini

    (Bank of England)

  • Stephen P. Millard

    (Bank of England, Monetary Analysis)

  • Richard Harrison

    (Bank of England, Monetary Analysis)

Abstract

The most popular simple rules, due to Taylor (1993) and McCallum (1995), are both meant to inform monetary policy in economies that are closed. On the other hand, their main open economy alternative, the Monetary Conditions Index (MCI) rule of Ball (1999) is flawed for a number or reasons, not least because it fails to adequately allow for different types of exchange rate shocks when setting policy. In this paper we derive simple monetary policy rules that are suitable for small open economies in general, and for the UK in particular. We do so by comparing the performance of a battery of complex and simple rules, including the familiar Taylor and McCallum rule and the MCI. The comparison entails stochastically simulating a two-sector open-economy stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated on UK data. The model displays persistence in the process of domestically generated inflation that arises by assuming 'generalised habit formation' in the preferences for both consumption and leisure.

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Paper provided by Society for Computational Economics in its series Computing in Economics and Finance 2000 with number 361.

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  • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
  • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
  • F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics

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