This revised second edition of Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle provides a rigorous graduate … for the analysis of monetary policy and its implications for inflation, economic fluctuations, and welfare. A backbone of … inflation-targeting policies. New material includes labor and financial market frictions, the zero lower bound on nominal …

implications for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.We proceed in two steps. We first leave … firms. We derive the relation between inflation and unemployment and discuss how it is influenced by the presence of labor … market frictions and real wage rigidities. We show the nature of the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment …