Household's preferences and monetary policy inertia

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2011
Volume: 111
Issue: 1
Pages: 64-67

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Interest rates set by central banks puzzlingly move with a certain inertia. We show that household's preferences can be important determinants of the optimal interest rate inertia due to their impact on the efficiency of the monetary policy transmission mechanism.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:111:y:2011:i:1:p:64-67
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25