Optimal Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with Habit Formation and Nominal Rigidities /

Introducing habit formation into an open economy macroeconomic model with price stickiness, we examine the characteristics of an optimal monetary policy. We find that, first, the optimal policy rule entails interest rate smoothing and responds to the lagged values of the foreign interest rate and do...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jung, Yongseung
Other Authors: Choi, Woon
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/005
Online Access:Full text available on IMF