Taylor rules with headline inflation
Subtitle: a bad idea
By: Rajeev Dhawan and Karsten Jeske
Contributors: Jeske, Karsten; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Series: Working paper series / Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta -- 2007-14; Working paper series (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta : Online) -- 2007-14.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Atlanta, Ga.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "Should a central bank accommodate energy price shocks? Should the central bank use core inflation or headline inflation with the volatile energy component in its Taylor rule? To answer these questions, we build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with energy use, durable goods, and nominal rigidities to study the effects of an energy price shock and its impact on the macroeconomy when the central bank follows a Taylor rule.  We then study how the economy performs under alternative parameterizations of the rule with different weights on headline and core inflation after an increase in the energy price.  Our simulation results indicate that a central bank using core inflation in its Taylor rule does better than one using headline inflation because the output drop is less severe.  In general, we show that the lower the weight on energy price inflation in the Taylor rule, the impact of an energy price increase on gross domestic product and inflation is also lower"--Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta web site.
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