Working Paper
Measurement Errors and Monetary Policy: Then and Now
Abstract: Should policymakers and applied macroeconomists worry about the difference between real-time and final data? We tackle this question by using a VAR with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility to show that the distinctionbetween real-time data and final data matters for the impact of monetary policy shocks: The impact on final data is substantially and systematically different (in particular, larger in magnitude for different measures of real activity) from theimpact on real-time data. These differences have persisted over the last 40 years and should be taken into account when conducting or studying monetary policy.
Keywords: real-time data; time-varying parameters; stochastic volatility; impulse responses;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Part of Series: Working Paper
Publication Date: 2015-11-05
Number: 15-13
Pages: 36 pages