Download or read book Simple and Robust Rules for Monetary Policy written by John B. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on simple normative rules for monetary policy which central banks can use to guide their interest rate decisions. Such rules were first derived from research on empirical monetary models with rational expectations and sticky prices built in the 1970s and 1980s. Simple rules are also frequently more robust than fully optimal rules. Moreover, historical experience has shown that simple rules can work well in the real world in that macroeconomic performance has been better when central bank decisions were described by such rules. The recent financial crisis has drawn attention to the importance of research on international monetary issues and on the implications of discretionary deviations from policy rules. Charts and tables.