Designing a Simple Loss Function for Central Banks : Does a Dual Mandate Make Sense? /

Yes, it makes a lot of sense. This paper studies how to design simple loss functions for central banks, as parsimonious approximations to social welfare. We show, both analytically and quantitatively, that simple loss functions should feature a high weight on measures of economic activity, sometimes...

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Autore principale: Debortoli, Davide
Altri autori: Kim, Jinill, Linde, Jesper, Nunes, Ricardo
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/164
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF

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