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The 1960s and the 1970s saw an intense debate about the optimal monetary policy instrument, to which Poole, in 1970, and Sargent and Wallace, in 1975, made seminal contributions. According to the practitioners' narrative, these authors popularized the use of quadratic loss functions in monetary...
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Recent experience does not include a "monetarist experiment," as some have argued, but may slightly reinforce preexisting reasons for doubting that the best way of formulating monetarist policy prescriptions is in the form of a constant growth rule for the money stock.A more desirable rule would...
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We discuss the development of policy rules at the University of Chicago and compare those rules with modern, Taylor-type rules. A key feature of the 1930s Chicago approach was the view that discretionary monetary policy has a destabilizing effect on the economy. Empirical confirmation of this...
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Konzept mit seiner Reser-viertheit gegenüber einer aktivistischen Geldpolitik und mit der Überzeugung, dass Inflation ein … targeting versus inflation targeting is judged as somewhat exaggerated. Being a potential future concept, components of a … developed targeting are consi-dered, with its roots on the insight that inflation is a monetary phenomenon and that a monetary …
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money now can cause higher inflation in the future. In spite of the qualifier ‘unpleasant,' this result is positive in … central bank to delay inflation by issuing debt to finance part of the fiscal deficit. The analysis is conducted in the … optimal to delay inflation, it does so knowing that it would result in higher inflation in the future. The central result of …
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