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Monetary Policy with State Contingent Interest Rates

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Pedro Teles
Bernardino Adao
Isabel Correia

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What instruments of monetary policy must be used in order to implement a unique equilibrium? This paper revisits the issues addressed by Poole (1970) and Sargent and Wallace (1975) on the multiplicity of equilibria when policy is conducted with either interest rate or money supply rules. We show that if monetary policy is conducted with both interest rates and money supplies as independent instruments it is possible to implement a unique equilibrium. This policy may require the government to set interest rates for all dates and states and in addition set exogenously the money supply every period in some, but not all, states. We show that an alternative policy that would implement a unique equilibrium sets exogenously the state contingent nominal interest rates as well as the initial money supply. These results hold whether prices are flexible or set in advance.

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Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2004 Meeting Papers with number 813.

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Keywords: Monetary policy policy instruments sticky prices state-contingent interest rates.

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E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
E40 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - General
E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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  1. Adao, Bernardino & Correia, Maria Isabel Horta & Teles, Pedro, 2005. "Monetary Policy with Single Instrument Feedback Rules," CEPR Discussion Papers 4948, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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