Monetary Policy Is Not Always Systematic and Data-Driven: Evidence from the Yield Curve

Monetary Policy Is Not Always Systematic and Data-Driven: Evidence from the Yield Curve
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Volume/Issue: Volume 2020 Issue 004
Publication date: January 2020
ISBN: 9781513522012
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Summary

Does monetary policy react systematically to macroeconomic innovations? In a sample of 16 countries – operating under various monetary regimes – we find that monetary policy decisions, as expressed in yield curve movements, do react to macroeconomic innovations and these reactions reflect the monetary policy regime. While we find evidence of the primacy of the price stability objective in the inflation targeting countries, links to inflation and the output gap are generally weaker and less systematic in money-targeting and multiple-objective countries.