Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates
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Abstract
This paper tests for the existence of asymmetric information between the Federal Reserve and the public by examining Federal Reserve and commercial inflation forecasts. It demonstrates that the Federal Reserve has considerable information about inflation beyond what is known to commercial forecasters. It also shows that monetary-policy actions provide signals of the Federal Reserve's information and that commercial forecasters modify their forecasts in response to those signals. These findings may explain why long-term interest rates typically rise in response to shifts to tighter monetary policy.Citation
Romer, Christina, D., and David H. Romer. 2000. "Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates." American Economic Review, 90 (3): 429-457. DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.3.429Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- E43 Determination of Interest Rates; Term Structure of Interest Rates
- E52 Monetary Policy
- E58 Central Banks and Their Policies