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Tekijä:Benigno, P.
Otsikko:Optimal monetary policy in a currency area
Lehti:Journal of International Economics
2004 : JUL, VOL. 63:2, p. 293-320
Asiasana:Monetary policy
Optimization
Currency
Prices
Terms of trade
Welfare
Models
Kieli:eng
Tiivistelmä:This paper investigates how monetary policy (hereafter as: mon-pol.) should be conducted in a 2-region general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition and price stickiness. This framework delivers a simple welfare criterion based on the utility of the consumers, used to evaluate mon-pol. in a currency area. If the two regions share the same degree of nominal rigidity, the terms of trade are completely insulated from mon-pol. and the optimal outcome is obtained by targeting a weighted average of the regional inflation rates. These weights coincide with the economic sizes of the region.
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