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Title: Riders on the Storm

Author(s): Óscar Jordá and Alan M. Taylor

Publication Date: September 2019

Keyword(s): Kalman filter, monetary policy stance, neutral rate of interest and state-space model

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance, Macroeconomics and Growth and Monetary Economics and Fluctuations

Abstract: Interest rates in major advanced economies have drifted down and in greater unison over the past few decades. A country's rate of interest can be thought of as reflecting movements in the global neutral rate of interest, the domestic neutral rate, and the stance of monetary policy. Only the latter is controlled by the central bank. Estimates from a state space New Keynesian model show that central bank policy explains less than half of the variation in interest rates. The rest of the time, the central bank is catching up to trends dictated by productivity growth, demography, and other factors outside of its control.

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Jordá, Ó and Taylor, A. 2019. 'Riders on the Storm'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13978