The Fed and the New Economy
This paper seeks to understand the behavior of Greenspan's Federal Reserve in the late 1990s. Some authors suggest that the Fed followed a simple "Taylor rule", while others argue that it deviated from such a rule because it recognized that the "New Economy" permitted an easing of policy. We find that a Taylor rule based on inflation and unemployment does break down in the late 1990s. However, the Fed's behavior appears stable once one accounts for the falling NAIRU of the period. A rule based on inflation and the deviation of unemployment from the NAIRU captures the Fed's behavior through the entire period from 1987 to 2000.
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2002-05
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Authors: | Ball, Laurence ; Tchaidze, Robert R. |
Institutions: | Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research (HKIMR), Government of Hong Kong |
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