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There are three main alternatives to the Federal Reserve that need to be discussed. These are the gold standard, private competitive supply of money, and the Yeager-Greenfield plan for an automatically stabilized unit of account. I will attempt to provide some relevant considerations in this article
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— with the most prominent contenders including price level, nominal income, and hybrid (inflation plus output gap) variables … — together with the issue of growth-rate vs. growing-level target path specifications. One conclusion is that inflation and …
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We consider what, if any, relationship there is between monetary aggregates and inflation, and whether there is any … paribus unitary relationship between inflation and money growth. Simulations of a New Keynesian model suggest that we should … allowance needed for the phase shift in the relationship between monetary growth rates and inflation. While financial innovation …
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pattern of correlations between exchange-rate changes and inflation that is more realistic than provided by a more standard …
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This paper reviews the distinction between the timeless perspective and discretionary modes of monetary policymaking, the former representing rule-based policy as recently formalized by Woodford (1999b). In models with forward-looking expectations, this distinction is greater than in the models...
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Topics covered in this survey paper include the following: distinguishing rules from discretion in practice; the feasibility of rule-like behavior by an independent central bank; optimal control vs. robustness as research strategies; choice among target variables; growth-rate vs. growing-level...
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Svensson (JEL, 2003) argues strongly that specific targeting rules first order optimality conditions for a specific objective function and model are normatively superior to instrument rules for the conduct of monetary policy. That argument is based largely upon four main objections to the latter...
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pattern of correlations between exchange-rate changes and inflation that is more realistic than provided by a more standard …
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Should central banks, because of the zero-lower-bound problem, raise their inflation-rate targets? Several arguments … are relevant. (1) In the absence of the ZLB, the optimal steady-state inflation rate, according to standard New Keynesian … currency is feasible (even arguably attractive) and would remove the ZLB constraint on policy. (5) Increasing target inflation …
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