Risk Management, Nonlinearity and Aggressiveness in Monetary Policy: The Case of the US Fed
Mardi | 2013-05-21 B103 Jean-Yves GNABO – Diego MOCCERO We contribute to the empirical literature on the risk-management approach to monetary policy by estimating regime switching models where the strength of the response of monetary policy to macroeconomic conditions depends on the level of risk associated with the inflation outlook and risk in financial markets. Using quarterly data for the Greenspan period we find that: i) risk in the inflation outlook and volatility in financial markets are a more powerful […]