Optimal monetary responses to news of an oil discovery

How should monetary policy respond to an oil discovery? Oil discoveries provide news that the natural level of output will rise in the future, which lowers the natural real rate of interest. Optimal monetary policy must accommodate these changes in natural output, and is well-approximated by a Taylo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wills, S
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2013