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Simple Rules of the Monetary Policy and Incomplete Exchange Rate Pass-Through

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  • Alali, Walid Y.

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The performance of various monetary rules is investigated in an open economy with incomplete exchange rate pass-through. Implementing monetary policy through an exchange-rate augmented policy rule does not improve social welfare compared to using an optimized Taylor rule, irrespective of the degree of pass-through. However, an indirect exchange rate response, through a policy reaction to Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rather than to domestic inflation, welfare-enhancing in all pass-through cases. This result is moreover independent of whether society values domestic or CPI inflation stabilization. The only case where a direct real exchange rate response is slightly welfare improving occurs when the other reaction coefficients, on inflation and output, are sub-optimal.

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  • Alali, Walid Y., 2012. "Simple Rules of the Monetary Policy and Incomplete Exchange Rate Pass-Through," EconStor Preprints 269882, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
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