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Household’s Preferences and Monetary Policy Inertia

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  • Alessandro Flamini

    (Department of Economics, The University of Sheffield)

  • Andrea Fracasso
Abstract
The estimation of monetary policy rules suggests that the interest rates set by central banks move with a certain inertia. Although a number of hypotheses have been suggested to explain this phenomenon, its ultimate origin is unclear, thus delineating this issue as a modern "puzzle" in monetary economics. We show that household's preferences can play an important role in determining optimal interest rate inertia. Importantly, this can occur even when the central bank has negligible preferences for smoothing the interest rate.

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  • Alessandro Flamini & Andrea Fracasso, 2009. "Household’s Preferences and Monetary Policy Inertia," Working Papers 2009002, The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics, revised Feb 2009.
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    Keywords

    Optimal monetary policy; interest rate smoothing; household's preferences;
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    JEL classification:

    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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