Monetary Economics (2nd year Ph.D. course, Uppsala University and the Riksbank) (joint with Nils Gottfries, Uppsala University, and Johan Söderberg, Stockholm University)
Two lectures on Practical Monetary Policy by Lars E.O. Svensson on Wednesday, May 16, and Monday, May 21, both at 14:15-17 in room Vasa, floor 12 at the Riksbank.
The main readings for these lectures course are Svensson (2012b, 2011c), Ingves (2011), Flodén (2011), Svensson (2012c), Woodford (2012), and Svensson (2012a). The topics covered will be the theory and practice of inflation targeting, the possibility of a non-vertical long-run Phillips curve, a comparison of monetary policy in the summer and fall of 2010 in Sweden and the US, and the ongoing debate on the relation between monetary policy and financial policy (policy for financial stability, macro-prudential policy).
Students not familiar with the Riksbank minutes and other material from the monetary policy meetings may want to check out Sveriges Riksbank (2012).
Lecture notes will be available here, for downloading hopefully before each lecture)
Readings: (* denotes required reading)
Adolfson, Malin, Stefan Laséen, Jesper Lindé, and Lars E.O. Svensson (2011), “Optimal Monetary Policy in an Operational Medium-Sized DSGE Model,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 43, 1287-1331. PDF.
Assenmacher-Wesche, Katrin, and Stefan Gerlach (2010), “Monetary policy and financial imbalances: Facts and fiction”, Economic Policy, July 2010, 439-482.
Blanchard, Olivier, and Jordi Galí (2010), “Labor Markets and Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment,” American Economic Journal – Macroeconomics 2, 1-30.
Claussen, Carl Andreas, Jonsson, Magnus and Lagerwall, Björn (2011), “A macroeconomic analysis of housing prices in Sweden”, The Riksbank’s commission of inquiry into risks on the Swedish housing market , April 2011, pages. 67–95. English Swedish
Finansinspektionen (the Swedish FSA) (2012), “The Swedish Mortgage Market,” March 2012, English Swedish.
*Flodén, Martin (2011), “Comments on Ingves, ‘Flexible Inflation Targeting in Theory and Practice’,” (in Swedish) Ekonomisk Debatt 39(6) 80-86. Swedish.
*Ingves, Stefan (2011), “Flexible Inflation Targeting in Theory and Practice,” speech in Stockholm, May 13, 2011. English Swedish
Laséen, Stefan, och Lars E.O. Svensson (2011), “Anticipated Alternative Instrument-Rate Paths in Policy Simulations,” International Journal of Central Banking 7(3) 1-35. PDF.
Svensson, Lars E.O. (2003), “Optimal Policy with Low-Probability Extreme Events,” in Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, and Financial Stability – A Festschrift for Charles Freedman, Proceedings of a conference held by the Bank of Canada, Ottawa, June 2003, 79-104. PDF.
Svensson, Lars E.O. (2010a), “Some Problems with Swedish Monetary Policy and Possible Solutions,” speech in Stockholm, November 24, 2010. English Swedish
Svensson, Lars E.O. (2010b), “Inflation Targeting and Financial Stability,” Policy lecture at the CEPR/ESI 14th Annual Conference on “How Has Our View of Central Banking Changed with the Recent Financial Crisis?”, hosted by the Central Bank of Turkey, Izmir, October 28, 2010. English.
Svensson, Lars E.O. (2010c), “Why a Lower Repo Rate Path?”, speech at Umeå University, February 24, 2010. English. Swedish.
Svensson, Lars E.O. (2011a), “For a Better Monetary Policy: Focus on Inflation and Unemployment,” speech at Luleå University of Technology, March 8, 2011. English. Swedish.
Svensson, Lars E.O. (2011b), “Central-Banking Challenges for the Riksbank: Monetary Policy, Financial-Stability Policy, and Asset Management,” the Félix Neubergh Lecture 2011, University of Gothenburg, November 17, 2011. PDF.
*Svensson, Lars E.O. (2011c), “Inflation Targeting,” chapter 22 in Friedman, Benjamin M., and Michael Woodford, eds., Handbook of Monetary Economics, Volume 3b, Elsevier. PDF.
*Svensson, Lars E.O. (2012a), “Comment on Michael Woodford, ‘Inflation Targeting and Financial Stability,” Sveriges Riksbank Economic Review 2012:1, 33-39. PDF.
*Svensson, Lars E.O. (2012b), “The Possible Unemployment Cost of Average Inflation below a Credible Target,” working paper, PDF.
*Svensson, Lars E.O. (2012c), “Practical Monetary Policy: Examples from Sweden and the United States,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2011, 289-332. PDF. Appendix.
Svensson, Lars E.O. (2012d), “Unemployment Gaps: A Note on Blanchard and Gali (2010),” PDF.
*Svensson, Lars E.O. (2012b), “Gaps,” notes. PDF.
*Sveriges Riksbank (2010), Monetary Policy in Sweden, English Swedish
Sveriges Riksbank (2011b) Monetary policy decisions: Meetings, Report/Update, Press Release, and Attributed Minutes. English Swedish.
*Sveriges Riksbank (2012), “Minutes of April 2012 Meeting”, English Swedish
Woodford, Michael (2007), “The Case for Forecast Targeting as a Monetary Policy Strategy,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(4), 3-24.
*Woodford, Michael (2012), “Inflation Targeting and Financial Stability,” Sveriges Riksbank Economic Review 2012:1, 7-32. PDF.