Journal Article
Inflation measure, Taylor rules, and the Greenspan-Bernanke years
Mehra, Yash P.; Sawhney, Bansi (2010-04)
Recent research has emphasized that the Federal Reserve under Chairman Alan Greenspan was forward looking, smoothed interest rates, and focused on core inflation. The semiannual monetary policy reports to U.S. Congress indicate that the measure of inflation used in monetary policy deliberations has also been refined over time: For most of the Greenspan period before 2000, inflation forecasts used the consumer price index (CPI), but in the early 2000s, inflation forecasts switched to using the core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) deflator. Using information contained in Greenbook ...
Economic Quarterly , Volume 96 , Issue 2Q , Pages 123-151