Has monetary policy become more efficient?
Subtitle: a cross country analysis
By: Stephen G. Cecchetti, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Stefan Krause.
Contributors: Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso.; Krause, Stefan, 1974-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10973; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10973.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Monetary policy.
Description: "Over the past twenty years, macroeconomic performance has improved in industrialized and developing countries alike.  In a broad cross-section of countries inflation volatility has fallen markedly while output variability has either fallen or risen only slightly.  This increased stability can be attributed to either: 1, more efficient policy-making by the monetary authority, 2, a reduction in the variability of the aggregate supply shocks, or 3, changes in the structure of the economy. In this paper we develop a method for measuring changes in performance, and allocate the source of performance changes to these two factors.  Our technique involves estimating movements toward an inflation and output variability efficiency frontier, and shifts in the frontier itself.  We study the change from the 1980s to the 1990s in the macroeconomic performance of 24 countries and find that, for most of the analyzed countries, more efficient policy has been the driving force behind improved macroeconomic performance"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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