Positive Trend Inflation and Determinacy in a Medium-Sized New Keynesian Model
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7122
This paper studies the challenge that increasing the inflation target poses to equilibrium determinacy in a medium-sized New Keynesian model without indexation fitted to the Great Moderation era. For moderate targets of the inflation rate, such as 2 or 4 percent, the probability of determinacy is near one conditional on the monetary policy rule of the estimated model. However, this probability drops significantly conditional on model-free estimates of the monetary policy rule based on real-time data. The difference is driven by the larger response of the federal funds rate to the output gap associated with the latter estimates.
Monetary Policy and International Finance
Fiscal Policy, Macroeconomics and Growth