TY  - JOUR
AU  - Laséen,Stefan
AU  - Svensson,Lars E.O.
TI  - Anticipated Alternative Instrument-Rate Paths in Policy Simulations
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14902
PY  - 2009
Y2  - April 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14902
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14902.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Stefan Laseen
Sveriges Riksbank
SE-103 37 Stockholm
Sweden
E-Mail: stefan.laseen@riksbank.se

Lars E.O. Svensson
Sveriges Riksbank
SE-103 37 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Tel: +46 8 787 0107
Fax: +46 8 21 0531
E-Mail: lars.svensson@iies.su.se
AB  - This paper specifies a new convenient algorithm to construct policy projections conditional on alternative anticipated policy-rate paths in linearized dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, such as Ramses, the Riksbank's main DSGE model. Such projections with anticipated policy-rate paths correspond to situations where the central bank transparently announces that it, conditional on current information, plans to implement a particular policy-rate path and where this announced plan for the policy rate is believed and then anticipated by the private sector. The main idea of the algorithm is to include among the predetermined variables (the "state" of the economy) the vector of nonzero means of future shocks to a given policy rule that is required to satisfy the given anticipated policy-rate path.
ER  -