TY  - UNPD
A1  - Orphanides, Athanasios
T1  - Activist stabilization policy and inflation : the Taylor rule in the 1970s
T2  - Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2002,15
N2  - A number of recent studies have suggested that activist stabilization policy rules responding to inflation and the output gap can attain simultaneously a low and stable rate of inflation as well as a high degree of economic stability. The foremost example of such a strategy is the policy rule proposed by Taylor (1993). In this paper, I demonstrate that the policy settings that would have been suggested by this rule during the 1970s, based on real-time data published by the U.S. Commerce Department, do not greatly differ from actual policy during this period. To the extent macroeconomic outcomes during this period are considered unfavorable, this raises questions regarding the usefulness of this strategy for monetary policy. To the extent the Taylor rule is believed to provide a reasonable guide to monetary policy, this finding raises questions regarding earlier critiques of monetary policy during the 1970s.
T3  - CFS working paper series - 2002, 15 
KW  - Great Inflation
KW  - Taylor Rule
KW  - Output Gap
KW  - Real-time Data
KW  - USA
KW  - Geldpolitik
KW  - Taylor-Regel
KW  - Geschichte 1968-1979
Y1  - 2002
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4488
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-10050
ER  -