经济
货币政策
宏
经济统计
政策分析
计量经济学
宏观经济学
计算机科学
政治学
程序设计语言
法学
作者
Régis Barnichon,Geert Mesters
摘要
The evaluation of macroeconomic policy decisions has traditionally relied on the formulation of a specific economic model. In this work, we show that two statistics are sufficient to detect, often even correct, nonoptimal policies, i.e., policies that do not minimize the loss function. The two sufficient statistics are (i) forecasts for the policy objectives conditional on the policy choice and (ii) the impulse responses of the policy objectives to policy shocks. Both statistics can be estimated without relying on a specific structural economic model. We illustrate the method by studying US monetary policy decisions. (JEL E24, E31, E32, E43, E52, E58)
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