We derive the optimal monetary policy in a sticky price model when private agents follow adaptive learning. We show … order to facilitate private sector learning and thus ease the future intratemporal inflation-output gap trade-offs. The … policy recommendation is robust: the welfare loss entailed by the optimal policy under learning if the private sector …

losses are outweighed by short term gains from the learning phase. …

, learning from the experience of the 1970s, eschewed activist policies in favor of policies that concentrated on the achievement …

: rational expectations and learning. We show that in this environment the ability to stabilize the real side of the economy is … private learning and misperceptions of natural rates call for greater policy inertia, a more aggressive response to inflation … economy. We show that such policies are quite robust to potential misspecification of private sector learning and the …

optimise under limited-information model-consistent learning, where each agent knows the parameters related to his …/her optimization problem. Under this learning approach the effect of a monetary policy shock on output and inflation is more muted but … learning version, we .find stronger expansionary effects of an increase in government expenditure during periods of downturns …

by the strength of a private learning channel from prices, arising from the multidimensional sources of asymmetric … information, in relation to the usual public learning channel. When the private learning channel is strong (weak) in relation to …