TY  - JOUR
AU  - Walsh,Carl E.
TI  - Interest Rate Volatility and Monetary Policy
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 915
PY  - 1982
Y2  - June 1982
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0915
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0915.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Carl Walsh
Department of Economics
E2 Building
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA   95064
Tel: 531-459-4082
E-Mail: walshc@ucsc.edu
AB  - In October 1979 the Federal Reserve shifted from an interest rate oriented operating procedure to a reserves oriented procedure. It is argued in this paper that part of the very large increase in interest rate volatility which resulted from the policy switch may have been due to shifts in the parameters of the money demand equation, shifts due to the adoption-of a reserve aggregates operating procedure. This result is derived by comparing rational expectations equilibria in a simple theoretical model under alternative policy rules. This allows the variance of interest rates to be explicitly expressed as a function of the policy rule.
ER  -