the volatility of GDP growth at all frequencies. Monetary policymakers looking to a neoclassical model to provide the … neutral levels of key variables-potential GDP, the natural rate of unemployment, and the equilibrium real interest rate, need … actual data to find them. Further, low-frequency movements of unemployment suggest a failure of the basic idea that …

volatility of GDP growth at all frequencies. Monetary policymakers looking to a neoclassical model to provide the neutral levels … of key variables-potential GDP, the natural rate of unemployment, and the equilibrium real interest rate, need to solve a … them. Further, low-frequency movements of unemployment suggest a failure of the basic idea that departures from the …

monetary policy. It covers several major macro-economic quantities, including unemployment rate, GDP, and weekly payrolls in … natural rate of unemployment and GDP growth comes out of the model naturally. An optimization framework is proposed to … first-order analytic solution is derived. We find that FED's interest rate policy has leaned heavily on the unemployment …

Okun's law is formulated as the ratio between GDP and unemployment (UE): β = f(GDP/UE). It is used to investigate the …