The Reserve Bank of Australia’s pandemic response and the New Keynesian trap
Stephen Kirchner
What the paper says
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has been overly wedded to a New Keynesian conception of the monetary policy transmission mechanism, in which the official cash rate is seen as the main instrument for policy implementation and the main measure of the stance of monetary policy. The 'effective lower bound' on the official cash rate became an artificial, selfimposed constraint on the RBA's initial response to the Covid-19 pandemic. By contrast, a monetarist conception of the monetary transmission mechanism would have encouraged more rapid adoption of alternative operating instruments.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.00 × 0.4 = 0.00 |
| M · momentum | 0.20 × 0.15 = 0.03 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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