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NUMBER 17

By Charles T. Carlstrom and Timothy S. Fuerst

POLICY DISCUSSION PAPER

Inertial Taylor Rules: The Benefit of
Signaling Future Policy

APRIL 2007

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Inertial Taylor Rules: The Benefit of
Signaling Future Policy
By Charles T. Carlstrom and Timothy S. Fuerst
We trace the consequences of an energy shock on the economy under two different
monetary policy rules: a standard Taylor rule where the Fed responds to inflation and the
output gap; and a Taylor rule with inertia where the Fed moves slowly to the rate predicted
by the standard rule. We show that with both sticky wages and sticky prices, the outcome
of an inertial Taylor rule is superior to that of the standard rule, in the sense that inflation is
lower and output is higher following an adverse energy shock. However, if prices alone are
sticky, things are less clear and the standard rule delivers substantially less inflation than
the inertial rule in the short run.

Charles T. Carlstrom is a
senior economic advisor
at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Cleveland.
Timothy S. Fuerst is a
professor at Bowling
Green State University
and a research associate
at the Bank.

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Introduction
Before exiting an expressway, a cautious driver always signals his intention by switching on his turn signal well in advance of turning because he understands that other drivers’ behavior will be affected by what they expect him do. This commonplace behavior
may speak metaphorically to central bank policy: If market participants are forwardlooking, then it may be important for the central bank to signal future policy moves.
Starting in June 2004, the FOMC changed its language to indicate that existing policy
accommodation would be removed at a “measured pace,” strongly signaling the direction
of future Fed policy. But why adjust partway by signaling future policy instead of going
all the way more quickly? Likewise, why increase the federal funds rate 25 basis points
at each of 10 policy meetings, instead of making five moves of 50 basis points, or, for that
matter, one move of 250 basis points? What are the advantages of a measured pace?
One way to describe Fed policy is with a simple Taylor rule, according to which
monetary policy responds to inflation and the output gap. Clearly, the Fed does not automatically adjust policy according to the prescriptions of the rule. Nevertheless, there is
substantial empirical evidence that broad movements in the funds rate are well tracked
by a simple Taylor rule. But this evidence also suggests that the Fed adjusts the funds
rate much more slowly than the simple Taylor rule prescribes. That is, although funds
rate movements are typically in the direction suggested by the rule, these movements
are only partial; thus, it takes a series of policy moves to reach the level a simple Taylor
rule suggests. This type of Taylor rule is said to be inertial because it changes slowly, and
today’s funds rate depends on yesterday’s funds rate.
One way to think about an inertial Taylor rule is that policy consists of both the
funds rate today and the expected path of the funds rate. Without inertia, policy moves
more immediately and does not indicate where the funds rate is likely to head.1 This
Policy Discussion Paper shows, in the context of a standard, quantitative, dynamic newKeynesian model, that it is beneficial for policy accommodation to be removed slowly
instead of in one—or a few—large moves.That is, an inertial Taylor rule frequently deliv-

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Of course, even with a
noninertial Taylor rule, one
will anticipate future funds
rate movements to the extent
that future inflation and the
output gap are forecasted.

ers a better outcome than a noninertial rule.
In particular, we trace the consequences of an energy shock on the economy under
two different monetary policy rules: a standard Taylor rule where the Fed responds to inflation and the output gap; and a Taylor rule with inertia where the Fed moves slowly to
the rate predicted by the standard rule.We show that with both sticky wages and sticky
prices, the outcome of a partial-adjustment Taylor rule is superior to that of the standard
rule, in the sense that inflation is lower and output is higher following an adverse energy
shock. However, if prices alone are sticky, things are less clear and the standard rule delivers substantially less inflation than the inertial rule in the short run.
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The Taylor Rule
The Taylor rule has had a big impact in both monetary policy circles and academic economic research. Figure 1 suggests why.The rule seems to track broad policy moves since
1987 very successfully, which seems remarkable because the rule is so simple: It is set
according to only four components: The first is the Fed’s long-term inflation target and
the second is the “natural” or long-term real (inflation-adjusted) federal funds interest rate.
The sum of these first two factors determines the long-run (nominal) federal funds rate,
which amounted to 4 percent annually in Taylor’s original rule. The two remaining factors, current output and inflation rates, address the way policy should respond to changing circumstances in the short run.
The Taylor rule prescribes that the Fed “lean against the wind” when setting interest
rates; that is, it should raise rates when current output surpasses potential. It prescribes
a similar response to inflation—raise interest rates when the inflation rate over the past
year exceeds its long-term target.
But mere leaning is not enough when it comes to inflation. Taylor cautioned that
interest rates must rise by more than the increase in inflation. Given that nominal interest rates naturally increase one-for-one with movements in anticipated inflation, just
FIGURE 1

INERTIAL AND NONINERTIAL TAYLOR RULE

Percent
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Partial-adjustment Taylor rule c,d
9

Target Taylor rule a,d

Effective federal funds rate b
7
5
3
1
-1
1989

1991

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005

a. Target or noninertial Taylor rule is adapted from John B. Taylor, “Discretion versus Policy Rules in
Practice,” Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, vol. 39 (1993), pp. 195–214.
b. Effective federal funds rate on the last day of each quarter.
c. Partial-adjustment or inertial Taylor rule is the weighted average of the last quarter’s federal funds rate
and the target Taylor rule.
d. The exact form of both Taylor rules comes from Sharon Kozicki “How Useful Are Taylor Rules for
Monetary Policy?” Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Economic Review, vol. 84 no. 2, 5–33.
Sources: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; Congressional Budget Office;
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Selected Interest Rates,” and Federal Reserve
Statistical Releases, H.15; and Bloomberg Financial Information Services.

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increasing the funds rate one-for-one with inflation is like treading water. Therefore, the
Fed must increase the real funds rate with inflation to make any headway. This morethan-proportional response of the nominal funds rate to inflation, known as the Taylor
principle, therefore prescribes that the real federal funds rate should be made greater
than the natural rate of interest whenever inflation is above target.
In the simplest form of the rule, Taylor argued that the Fed should increase the real
funds rate by half a percentage point for every percentage point that inflation is above
target or output is above potential. This implies that the nominal funds rate should increase by 1.5 percent for every percentage point increase in inflation. (Likewise, the
Fed should decrease the real funds rate by the same amount for deviations below either
target or potential.) Thus, Taylor felt that monetary policy (in terms of the real funds
rate) should respond equally (in terms of the real interest rate) to inflation and output
deviations. But the exact weights are not crucial. Empirical evidence suggests that the
Fed has responded to output-gap deviations (at least since 1983) a little less than Taylor
had assumed:
it* = 2.32 + 1.44 * (π t − π * ) + 0.15* output gapt .
Figure 1 plots this rule, which goes for long periods below or above the actual funds
rate. One reason for these long misses is that the FOMC does not change the funds rate
as often or as dramatically as the simple Taylor rule suggests. Instead, the actual funds
rate exhibits a lot of inertia, suggesting that an inertial Taylor rule might be a better fit.
Here the Fed also looks at the past funds rate in setting its target.The partial-adjustment
(or inertial) Taylor rule is given by
itPA = 0.76 * it −1 + 00.24* it* ,
where it–1 is last quarter’s funds rate (measured by the federal funds rate on the last day
of the quarter) and i* is the target rate (the rate suggested by the Taylor rule without inertia). Figure 1 also plots this inertial rule. The baseline rule without inertia is basically a
longer-run target that provides guidance for where the funds rate will eventually end up.
This formulation assumes that instead of moving there immediately, the Fed moves only
24 percent of the way there each quarter.Figure 1 clearly shows that this partial-adjustment
Taylor rule tracks the actual funds rate very closely.Another way of thinking about the partialadjustment formulation is that instead of reacting to today’s inflation and output gap, the
FOMC reacts to a weighted average of today’s and all past inflation and output gaps.
The discussion that follows shows that with sticky prices and sticky wages, a partial-adjustment Taylor rule delivers better inflation and output outcomes than the traditional Taylor rule. This is shown in the context of an oil shock that reduces output and
increases inflation.
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Oil Prices and Monetary Policy: A CGE Model
To ascertain whether an inertial or noninertial Taylor rule is better, we need a calibrated
computable general-equilibrium (CGE) model. Here we sketch the model used for our
simulations; we describe it more fully in the appendix, along with our calibration of its
parameters. Oil is an important input in manufacturing (and, perhaps to a lesser extent,
in services). Oil price increases will therefore reduce output and (for a given monetary
policy) increase prices.The rise in prices is not instantaneous, however; the evidence suggests that prices are sticky and adjust slowly and that wages are sticky as well. Both these
forms of nominal stickiness imply that output will not respond efficiently and will differ
from its first-best level (or potential). That is, if both prices and wages were perfectly flexible, the output gap would be zero.
A key issue in the analysis is, of course, the statement of monetary policy. For the
benchmark simulation, we assume that policy is given by the noninertial Taylor type described in the previous section. For the inertial rule, we assume that policy adjusts only
24 percent of the way to the rate predicted by the basic Taylor rule (this is the partialadjustment rate suggested by Kozicki, 1999).

Model Simulations
Model simulations suggest that there may be an advantage in adjusting the funds rate
slowly. Figure 2 answers the hypothetical questions, “Holding everything else constant,
how would inflation, interest rates, and output be expected to behave following a onetime 30 percent increase in oil prices? How would these variables behave if the Fed followed a noninertial Taylor rule versus an inertial Taylor rule?” All variables are plotted as
log deviations from trend. (For the funds rate and inflation, these are linear deviations
from trend.)
With both rules, the oil shock tends to increase inflation. The Taylor rule suggests
that policymakers raise the nominal interest rate to keep inflation from increasing even
more. But with inertia, this increase is smaller and spread out over time. Therefore, the
difference between an inertial rule and noninertial rule is that the latter increases rates
less today with a promise of future increases.
This promise to increase rates in the future is extremely important. With inertia, the
nominal funds rate lags behind the rule without inertia and peaks at a much lower level
as well. The promise of future rate increases keeps inflation lower than the noninertial
rule as well. Surprisingly, the funds rate with inertia is always lower than the noninertial Taylor rule, yet inflation too is always lower. This is because the stance of monetary
policy is not given by the nominal funds rate but by the real, inflation-adjusted funds
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funds rate deviates from the Wicksellian interest rate (the real interest rate that would
prevail in the economy if there were no price or wage stickiness or, equivalently, if the
output gap were always equal to zero). By construction, therefore, the Wicksellian rate is
the same for both the inertial and noninertial rules.
In the quarters immediately following an oil price increase, policy is much easier (the
real rate is lower) for the inertial rule. However, this does not translate into more inflation today because in later periods, policy is expected to be tighter for the inertial rule.A
long period in the distant future when policy is expected to be tighter more than compensates (in terms of inflation outcomes) for the shorter period of time when policy
was substantially easier. The true stance of monetary policy, therefore, is given not only
by the real interest rate but also by the real rate’s future path.
Although inversely related, the behavior of the output gap mirrors that of the real
interest rate. In the beginning, the real interest rate is lower, making policy less restrictive than it is for the noninertial rule. Not surprisingly, output is higher and thus the
output gap for the inertial rules during these periods. In subsequent periods, things are
reversed.The output gap is composed of two distortions, one arising from sticky prices
and the other from sticky wages.The output gap from sticky prices is nearly identical for
the two rules (although a little lower for the inertial rule). It is the gap arising from sticky
wages that drives the differences in the total output gap.
Inflation is a little lower in the inertial model because output and the output gap resulting from sticky prices is a little lower.Another way of thinking about inflation is that
it is the present discounted value of all future marginal costs (the inverse of a markup).
Current prices are determined by marginal cost, as it is today and is expected be in the
future. A larger markup (lower marginal cost) means that output is further below its efficient level, a negative output gap.
Like marginal cost for sticky prices, the monopoly distortion in labor markets measures the difference between the household’s marginal rate of substitution and the real
wage. A value of unity would mean no distortion, whereas a smaller value would imply
a larger distortion and thus less output and the output gap. Analogous to inflation, wage
inflation is the present discounted value of all these future deviations. This distortion is
what drives the differences in the output gap between the inertial and noninertial Taylor rule simulations. Nominal wage inflation driven by differences in real wage growth
is always lower in the inertial model. The fact that wage inflation is always lower with
inertia implies that in a present discounted sense, output is further below potential than
it is in the model without inertia.

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FIGURE 2

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RESPONSE TO AN OIL SHOCK (STICKY PRICES AND STICKY WAGES)*

Deviation from trend, percent
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4

Inflation (standard rule)

0.3
0.2
0.1

Inflation (inertial rule)

0.0
0

2

4

6

8

10
Quarter

12

14

16

18

20

Deviation from trend, percent
0.9
0.8

Nominal interest rate (standard rule)

0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
Nominal interest rate (inertial rule)

0.1
0.0
0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

16

18

20

Quarter
Deviation from trend, percent
0.4
Real rate (standard rule)

0.3

Real rate (inertial rule)

0.2
0.1
0.0
-0.1
-0.2
-0.3
Wicksellian rate

-0.4
-0.5
0

2

4

6

8

10
Quarter

6

12

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FIGURE 2

RESPONSE TO AN OIL SHOCK (STICKY PRICES AND STICKY WAGES)* (CONTINUED)

Deviation from trend, percent
1.0
Gap (standard rule)
0.5
0.0
-0.5
Gap (inertial rule)
-1.0
-1.5
-2.0
-2.5
-3.0
0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

14

16

18

20

Quarter
Deviation from trend, percent
1.4
Marginal cost (inertial rule)
1.2
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
Marginal cost (standard rule)
0.2
0.0
0

2

4

6

8

10

12

Quarter
Deviation from trend, percent
1
Labor distortion (standard rule)
0
Labor distortion (inertial rule)
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5
0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

Quarter

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RESPONSE TO AN OIL SHOCK (STICKY PRICES AND STICKY WAGES)* (CONTINUED)

Deviation from trend, percent
0.16
Wage inflation (standard rule)
0.12

0.08
Wage inflation (inertial rule)
0.04

0.00

-0.04
0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

Quarter
*Simulations are hypothetical responses to a 30 percent oil price shock, given that future oil prices behave
as they have in the past.
Sources: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; U.S. Department of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Selected Interest
Rates,”Federal Reserve Statistical Releases H.15; and authors’ calculations.

The differences between the output gap driven by sticky prices and that driven by
sticky wages suggests that the latter may be crucial to the result that inertia appears to
deliver better outcomes. A model with just sticky prices bears this out. Figure 3 graphs
the outcomes for the model with only sticky prices. Inflation was everywhere lower for
the inertial Taylor rule in the model with both sticky prices and sticky wages. But with
only sticky prices, inflation is initially much higher for the inertial Taylor rule. Output and
the output gap are initially higher as well. Because of the large inflation jump, nominal
interest rates in the first few quarters after the energy shock are just as high for the inertial rule as for the noninertial.
The importance of inertial Taylor rules is reminiscent of the benefits of forward-looking language in FOMC policy statements.With forward-looking language, the Fed moves
today and signals where they intend to move in the future. Likewise, by influencing
expectations, monetary policy operates off of both short- and long-term rates.An inertial
Taylor rule basically states where the Fed moves today and where they are expected to
move in the future.

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FIGURE 3

RESPONSE TO AN OIL SHOCK (STICKY PRICES ONLY)*

Deviation from trend, percent
0.35
0.30
0.25
Inflation (standard rule)
0.20
0.15
0.10
Inflation (inertial rule)
0.05
0.00
0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

Quarter
Deviation from trend, percent
0.40
0.35
Nominal interest rate (standard rule)
0.30
0.25
0.20
Nominal interest rate (inertial rule)
0.15
0.10
0.05
0.00
0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

12

14

16

18

20

Quarter
Deviation from trend, percent
0.2
Real rate (standard rule)
0.1
Real rate (inertial rule)
0.0
-0.1
-0.2
-0.3
Wicksellian rate
-0.4
-0.5
0

2

4

6

8

10
Quarter

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RESPONSE TO AN OIL SHOCK (STICKY PRICES ONLY)* (CONTINUED)

Deviation from trend, percent
0.6
0.4

Gap (inertial rule)

0.2
0.0
-0.2
-0.4
Gap (standard rule)
-0.6
-0.8
0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

Quarter

*Simulations are hypothetical responses to a 30 percent oil price shock, given that future oil prices behave
as they have in the past.
Sources: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau
of Labor Statistics; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Selected Interest Rates,” Federal
Reserve Statistical Releases, H.15; and authors’ calculations.

Conclusion
This paper has shown that in a standard model with sticky wages and sticky prices, a Taylor rule with inertia delivers better outcomes than the standard rule without inertia.This
result, however, depends on the stickiness of wages relative to prices. Recent work by
Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans suggests the importance of sticky wages in explaining
business cycle fluctuations. This lends support to the notion that the Fed implicitly follows an inertial Taylor rule because it delivers lower interest rates and inflation without
worsening output significantly. In fact, for the first several quarters following the oil price
increase, output is also higher for the inertial rule.

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Appendix
The Model
Apart from adding oil to the production technology, the underlying model is fairly standard. See Woodford (2003) and Walsh (2003) for details. The theoretical model
described here consists of households and firms; we present the decision problems of
each in turn.

Households
Households are infinitely lived, discounting the future at rate β . Their period-by-period
utility function is given by
U ( Ct , Lt ,

Mt +1
C 1−σ
L1+γ
M
) ≡ t − t + V ( t +1 ),
Pt
Pt
1−σ 1+ γ

where σ < 0, γ > 0, V is increasing and concave, Ct denotes consumption, Lt denotes
M
labor, and t +1 denotes real cash balances that can facilitate time-t transactions. The
Pt
household begins period t with Mt cash balances and Bt – 1 one-period nominal bonds
that pay Rt – 1 gross interest. With wt denoting the real wage, Pt the price level, and Xt the
time-t monetary injection, the household’s intertemporal budget constraint is given by
Pt Ct + Bt + Mt +1 ≤ Mt + Rt −1 Bt −1 + Pt wt Lt + Xt .
The household’s portfolio choice is given by
V ′( Mt +1 / Pt ) Rt − 1
=
Rt
Ct−σ
Ct−σ = Rt β Ct−+σ1 / π t +1 .
Following Erceg, Henderson, and Levin (2000), we assume that households are
monopolistic suppliers of labor and that nominal wages are adjusted as in Calvo (1983).
In this case, labor supply behavior is given by
Ctσ Lγt = Zht Wt .
It is easy to see that the wage elasticity of labor demand in this model is 1/ γ . The
variable Zht in this labor demand equation is the monopoly distortion as it measures
the difference between the household’s marginal rate of substitution and the real wage.
In the case of perfectly flexible but monopolistic wages, Zht = Zh is constant and less
than unity. The smaller Zh is, the greater is the monopoly power. In the case of sticky

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nominal wages, Zht is variable and moves in response to the real and nominal shocks
hitting the economy. Erceg et al. (2000) demonstrate that in log deviations, nominal
wage adjustment is given by

π tw = λ w zht + βπ tw+1 ,
w
where π t is time-t net nominal wage growth, and zht denotes the log deviation from the

steady state.

Firms
The firms in the model utilize labor services, Lt, from households, and energy, Et, from external sources to produce the final good using the CES technology:
1 /(1− ρ )

Y = f ( L, E ) ≡ ⎡⎣(1 − a ) L1− ρ + aE 1− ρ ⎤⎦

.

w
The real energy price is equal to π t so that a firm’s nominal profits are given by

profits = Pt (Yt − wt Lt − pte Et ).
The firm is a monopolistic producer of these goods, implying that labor will be paid
below its marginal product. Let Zt denote marginal cost so that we have
wt = Zt fL ( t )

pte = Zt f E ( t ).
The variable Zt is the monopoly distortion as it measures how far the firm’s marginal
products differ from the real factor prices. In the case of perfectly flexible but monopolistic prices, Zt = Z is constant and less than unity. The smaller Z is, the greater is the
monopoly power. In the case of sticky prices, Zt is variable and moves in response to
the real and nominal shocks hitting the economy. Yun (1996) demonstrates that in log
deviations, nominal price adjustment is given by

π t = λ zt + βπ t +1 ,

where π t is time-t nominal price growth (as a deviation from steady-state nominal price
growth) and zt denotes the log deviation from the steady state.

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Equilibrium and Policy
There are four markets in this theoretical model: labor, goods, bonds, and money. The respective market-clearing conditions include Ct = Yt = pte Et and Bt = 0. The money market clears with the household holding the per capita money supply intertemporally.

Calibration
Before proceeding with the analysis, we need to set parameter values consistent with
empirical estimates for a quarterly model. Preference parameters are given by β = 0.99
(implying a 4 percent annual steady-state real rate of return), σ = 2, and γ = 3. The latter
values are consistent with micro evidence of fairly inelastic savings and labor supply behavior. Since monetary policy is given by an interest rate targeting procedure, the nature
of money’s utility is irrelevant. Finally, we assume that prices and nominal wage levels can
be adjusted on average every 2.9 quarters. Given the other preference parameters, this
implies λ = 0.19 and λ w = 0.0146. For the model with sticky prices only λ w = 1000.
As for firms, the elasticity of substitution between oil and labor is equal to 1/ ρ . Consistent with empirical estimates, we set this elasticity to 0.59, or ρ = 1.7. See Kim and
Loungani (1992). The share parameter, a, is set to 0.02.This implies a share of energy in
total output of 6 percent (consistent with its share in 1989).
The (logged) real price of oil is given by an exogenous AR(2) process:
pte = a1 pte−1 + a2 pte−2 + ε t .
Estimating this process yields a1 = 1.12 and a2 = –15.
Finally, recall that monetary policy in the baseline experiment is given by
Rt = (1 − ρ ) Rss + ρ Rt −1 + (1 − ρ )(τπ t + τ y yt ).
Empirical evidence presented in Kozicki (2002) suggests that since 1983, the coefficients in this monetary policy rule are τ = 1.44 and τ y = 0.14. For the noninertial
Taylor rule, ρ = 0, whereas for the inertial Taylor rule, ρ = 0.76.

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