This paper documents changes in the cyclical behavior of nominal data series that appear after 1979:IIIQ, when the Federal Reserve implemented a policy to end the acceleration of inflation. Such changes were not apparent in real variables. A business cycle model with impulses to technology and a...

In this paper, we model the interaction of inflation with the tax on nominal capital gains, examining the contribution of this interaction to aggregate fluctuations. Our innovation is to combine monetary policy shocks with non-indexed taxes in a model in which the central bank implements policy...