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Projecting deficits
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U.S. inflation targeting: pro and con
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Nobel views on inflation and unemployment
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Welfare-based optimal monetary policy with unemployment and sticky prices: a linear-quadratic framework
In this paper, we derive a linear-quadratic model for monetary policy analysis that is consistent with sticky prices and search and matching frictions in the labor market. We show that the second-order approximation to the welfare of the representative agent depends on inflation and "gaps" that involve current and lagged unemployment. Our approximation makes explicit how the costs of fluctuations are generated by the presence of search frictions. These costs are distinct from the costs associated with relative price dispersion and fluctuations in consumption that appear in standard new ...
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Using monetary policy to stabilize economic activity
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Changes in the business cycle
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Three questions concerning nominal and real interest rates
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Projecting budget surpluses