
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.1007870
Model uncertainty has the potential to change importantly how monetary policy should be conducted, making it an issue that central banks cannot ignore. In this paper, I use a standard new Keynesian business cycle model to analyze the behavior of a central bank that conducts policy with discretion while fearing that its model is misspeci…ed. My main results are as follows. First, policy performance can be improved if the discretionary central bank implements a robust policy. This important result is obtained because the central bank’s desire for robustness directs it to assertively stabilize in‡ation, thereby mit
Monetary policy, Model uncertainty, robustness, uncertainty aversion, time-consistency., jel: jel:E62, jel: jel:C61, jel: jel:E52
Monetary policy, Model uncertainty, robustness, uncertainty aversion, time-consistency., jel: jel:E62, jel: jel:C61, jel: jel:E52
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