speeches · December 6, 2018
Regional President Speech
James Bullard · President
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More on Modern Monetary Policy Rules
December 7, 2018
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Speaking to the Indiana Bankers Association, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard further
elaborated on some key directions the Fed could take to update a popular monetary policy
rule, a version of the Taylor rule, whose construction was based on U.S. data from the 1980s
and 1990s. Since then, he noted, three important macroeconomic developments have
altered key elements of policy rule construction. These developments are lower short-term
real interest rates in the U.S. and around the world, the disappearing Phillips curve and
better measures of in�ation expectations. “Incorporating these developments yields a
modernized policy rule that suggests the current level of the policy rate is about right over
the forecast horizon,” Bullard said.
Bullard expanded on remarks that were delivered to the Economic Club of Memphis on Oct.
18, 2018.
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James Bullard (2018, December 6). Regional President Speech. Speeches, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/regional_speeche_20181207_james_bullard
BibTeX
@misc{wtfs_regional_speeche_20181207_james_bullard,
author = {James Bullard},
title = {Regional President Speech},
year = {2018},
month = {Dec},
howpublished = {Speeches, Federal Reserve},
url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/regional_speeche_20181207_james_bullard},
note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}