The Taylor rule is the simplest rule describing how the main monetary policy instrument - the policy interest rate - could be set. The rule was formulated by John Taylor in 1993 as a linear dependence of the central bank's interest rate on the output gap and the deviation of the current inflation from its target level. From then on, the rule gained high popularity with economists who studied monetary policy. This can be explained by a high degree of accuracy with which Taylor described the US monetary... Mehr