In recent years, the learnability of rational expectations equilibria (REE) and determinacy of economic structures have rightfully joined the usual performance criteria among the sought-after goals of policy design. Some contributions to the literature, including Bullard and Mitra (2001) and...

This paper examines the friction between simplicity and optimality in the design of monetary policy rules. With complete information, rational expectations, and full optimization, the correct answer to the question of the best rule is trite: optimal control is optimal. However, rational...

A treatment of policy design for learnability in worlds where agents have potentially misspecified their learning models has yet to surface. This paper provides such a treatment. We begin with the notion that because the profession has yet to settle on a consensus model of the economy, it is...