Abstract:Monetary policy is often described by a simple interest rate reaction function, responding to inflation and the output gap. While this approach is meant to represent the actual interest rate setting behaviour of a central bank, the question arises to what extent the policy function is optimal with respect to fulfilling given inflation and output gap targets.
ContributionThis paper contributes to the discussion by introducing a machine learning based approach called reinforcement learning (RL) to compute optima… Show more
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