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Latest Reserve Bank of NZ Discussion Papers

Published: Thu 28 Sep 2006 10:16 AM
The Latest Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Papers
28 September, 2006
The following Discussion Paper has been released on the Reserve Bank's website. The discussion papers are available at
http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/research/discusspapers/
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DP2006/08
What do robust policies look like for open economy inflation targeters?
Kirdan Lees
http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/research/discusspapers/dp06_08.pdf
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DP2006/08
What do robust policies look like for open economy inflation targeters?
Kirdan Lees
http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/research/discusspapers/dp06_08.pdf
Abstract
Typical New Keynesian open economy models suggest a limited response to the exchange rate. This paper examines the role of the open economy in determining robust rules when the central bank fears various model misspecification errors. The paper calibrates a hybrid New Keynesian model to broadly fit the economies of three archetypal open economy inflation targeters - Australia, Canada and New Zealand - and seeks robust time-consistent policy. We find that policies robust to model misspecification react more aggressively to not only the exchange rate, but also inflation, the output gap and their associated shocks. This result generalizes to the context of a flexible inflation targeting central bank that cares about the volatility of the real exchange rate. However, when the central bank places only a small weight on interest rate smoothing and fears misspecification in only exchange rate determination, a more cautious policy is recommended for all but an exchange rate shock. It is also shown that the benefits of an exchange rate channel far outweigh the concomitant costs of uncertain exchange rate determination.
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