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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מחבר ראשי: Debortoli, Davide
מחברים אחרים: Kim, Jinill, Linde, Jesper, Nunes, Ricardo
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/164
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF