Extreme events and optimal monetary policy

Serie

  • Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 

Resumen

  • This paper studies the implication of extreme shocks for monetary policy. The analysis is based on a small-scale New Keynesian model with sticky prices and wages where shocks are drawn from asymmetric Generalized Extreme Value distributions. A nonlinear perturbation solution of the model is estimated by the simulated method of moments. Under the Ramsey policy, the central bank responds nonlinearly and asymmetrically to shocks. The trade-off between targeting a gross inflation rate above 1 (or a net inflation rate above 0) as insurance against extreme shocks and targeting an average gross inflation at unity to avoid adjustment costs is unambiguously decided in favour of strict price stability.

fecha de publicación

  • 2018

Líneas de investigación

  • Extreme value theory
  • monetary policy
  • nonlinear models
  • simulated method of moments
  • skewness risk
  • third-order perturbation

Issue

  • 4/2018