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Stable inflation fosters sound economic decisions
An argument that monetary policy can meet concerns about output and employment indirectly by keeping inflation stable, thus allowing people to make sound production and consumption decisions.
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Monetary policy regimes: a synthesis of the monetary control and rational expectations literatures
The monetary control literature has attempted to explore the effects of alternative policies without succeeding in incorporating rational expectations or in integrating analysis of the money supply sector into a complete macroeconomic framework. the rational expectations approach, while reserving a place for the monetary control issues under the concepts of instrument (Sargent and Wallace 1975), automatic stabilizers (McCallum and Whitaker 1979), and structural reforms (Dotsey and King 1983), has not provided the needed integration. Extending earlier work by Hoehn (1979, 1983b) and McCallum ...
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A regional economic forecasting procedure applied to Texas
The presentation of a method for building a time series regional forecasting model for Texas that requires only ordinary least squares regressions to forecast the variables.
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Interest rate rules are infeasible and fail to complete macroeconomic models
A discussion of the circumstances under which interest rate rules are consistent with nominal determinacy in macroeconomic models.
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Employment distortions under sticky wages and monetary policies to minimize them
A discussion of sticky nominal wages, showing that nominal income or price-level targeting policies result in smaller distortions than do policies that target output or money.
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Designing monetary policy under rational expectations: analysis and practical implications
An investigation of the ways in which rational expectations theory fundamentally changes monetary policy analysis and an attempt to generalize the implications of such analysis.
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Procyclical real wages under nominal-wage contracts with productivity variations
A modification of existing sticky-wage models to account for the observed cyclical behavior of real wages by means of a model that introduces productivity factors into nominal-wage contracts.
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The Ohio economy: using time series characteristics in forecasting
The premise of this study is that the regional economist can better understand the Ohio economy by studying the properties of important Ohio time series that can be identified and quantified through simple regression methods.
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The Ohio economy: a time series analysis
A time series methodology is used to understand the Ohio economy by assessing various indicators of economic activity in Ohio. These can be identified and quantified through simple methods applicable to other regional economies, as well.