We argue that the uncertainty over the impact of macroprudential policy need not make a policymaker more cautious. Our starting point is the classic result of Brainard (1967) which finds that uncertainty over the impact of a policy instrument will make a policymaker less active. This result is...

Well-anchored inflation expectations play an important role in the achievement of the Monetary Policy Committee's (MPC's) 2% inflation target. At the moment, available measures are consistent with inflation expectations remaining well anchored to the MPC's target. Empirical work suggests that...

This paper uses transaction-level data on the universe of traded UK inflation swaps to characterize who buys and sells inflation risk, when, and with what price elasticity. This provides measures of expected inflation cleaned from liquidity frictions. We first show that this market is segmented:...

This note studies the inflation-uncertainty relationship in a New Keynesian framework. Inflation in these models can be expressed as the discounted sum of current and expected future real marginal costs. The main point of this note is to highlight that real marginal costs in general equilibrium...

This note studies the inflation-uncertainty relationship in a New Keynesian framework. Inflation in these models can be expressed as the discounted sum of current and expected future real marginal costs. The main point of this note is to highlight that real marginal costs in general equilibrium...

There is a tight empirical link between the determinants of the cross-section of risk premia and selected structural shocks identified by macroeconomists. To show this, I propose an orthogonalisation method that approximates the stochastic discount factor with VAR innovations. The method is...

I propose a new method of constructing a macroeconomic shock based on its ability to explain the cross-section of asset returns. The only identifying assumption is that this λ-shock demands the highest risk price per unit of exposure, or equivalently, minimises the associated sum of squared...

We identify a 'risk news' shock in a vector autoregression (VAR), modifying Barsky and Sims's procedure, while incorporating sign restrictions to simultaneously identify monetary policy, technology and demand shocks. The VAR-identifed risk news shock is estimated to account for around 2%-12% of...