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Monetary policy in times of uncertainty: a reappraisal of the Brainard principle

Giuseppe Ferrero, Mario Pietrunti and Andrea Tiseno, (2019), “Monetary policy in times of uncertainty: a reappraisal of the Brainard principle”, VoxEU, 21 March

Dealing with uncertainty about the state of the economy is one of the main challenges facing monetary policymakers. In recent years there has been an extensive debate on the value of some of the deep parameters driving the economy, such as the natural rate of interest and the slope of the Phillips curve, estimates of which are quite uncertain. This column argues that when facing uncertainty on the structural relationship among macroeconomic variables, central banks should adopt a pragmatic and data-dependent approach to adjusting their monetary policy stance.

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