Price and output stabilities determine the success of monetary policy in either economy. This paper briefly examines the monetary policy strategies of three developed countries (USA, UK, Sweden) and three developing countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan). It is found that the developed countries follow some rule-based monetary policy whereas the developing countries with ill-organised monetary system do not follow the rule- based policy, rather they often formulate and launch policies under some discretionary framework. The fundamental objective of this study is to examine the performance of...

This paper estimates an interest rate reaction function for the US by using quarterly data spanning 1957: Q1-2010: Q3. We find evidence that US monetary policy can be described by the Taylor (1993) rule. Although Taylor's original rule was specified under contemporaneous set-up, there is substantial evidence that forward looking specification can replace the original version without any loss of generality. Interest rate smoothing is another dimension that does not question the robustness of the rule. The only problem underlying in estimation process is the possibility of spurious regression...