Learning about monetary policy rules

We study macroeconomic systems with forward-looking private sector agents and a monetary authority that is trying to control the economy through the use of a linear policy feedback rule. We use stability under recursive learning a la Evans and Honkapohja (Learning and Expectations in Macroeconomics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2001) as a criterion for evaluating monetary policy rules in this context. We find that considering learning can alter the evaluation of alternative policy rules. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.