Article ID: | iaor2004468 |
Country: | Cuba |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 28 |
End Page Number: | 50 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
Journal: | Revista de Investigacin Operacional |
Authors: | Rodrguez Carlos Pateiro, Freire Luis Enrique Pedreira |
Central banks of the main developed economies have as a main goal the stability of prices. The monetary policy to achieve this goal is implemented through the control of short term interest rates. In this work we conduct an empirical study to show to what extent the monetary institutions fix the interest rates according with the Taylor rule. The Taylor interest rate rule makes the short-term interest rate dependent on current inflationary and cyclical developments.