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The Fed's Reaction to Asset Prices

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  • Zeno Rotondi

    (Capitalia, Roma e Università di Ferrara)

  • Giacomo Vaciago

    (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)

Abstract

Should central banks react to stock market prices? This problem has become fashionable again after the bubble of the 1990s and the following recession: if the Fed had reacted earlier to con tain the sharp growth in stock prices, might macroeconomic stabilization have been achieved? We present a new set of estimates showing that the Fed did react to stock market prices in the period 1988-2003. In particular, we find a significant lagged response for both real-time data and ex post revised data, as we would expect from a stabilizing leaning-against-the-wind approach.

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  • Zeno Rotondi & Giacomo Vaciago, 2005. "The Fed's Reaction to Asset Prices," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, vol. 95(2), pages 221-244, March-Apr.
    • Handle: RePEc:rpo:ripoec:v:95:y:2005:i:2:p:221-244
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    1. Yosra Baaziz, 2015. "Estimating Interest Rate Setting Behavior in Brazil: A LSTR Model Approach," Economies, MDPI, vol. 3(2), pages 1-17, April.
    2. Vítor Castro, 2008. "Are Central Banks following a linear or nonlinear (augmented) Taylor rule?," NIPE Working Papers 19/2008, NIPE - Universidade do Minho.
    3. Driffill, John & Rotondi, Zeno & Savona, Paolo & Zazzara, Cristiano, 2006. "Monetary policy and financial stability: What role for the futures market?," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 2(1), pages 95-112, April.
    4. Vítor, Castro, 2011. "Can central banks' monetary policy be described by a linear (augmented) Taylor rule or by a nonlinear rule?," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 7(4), pages 228-246, December.

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    JEL classification:

    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • 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
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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