This paper verifies the performance of the Barro and Gordon (1983) model to explain the US inflation since the early 1950's. We divide the period from 1951:2 to 2005:2 according to each chairman of the Federal Reserve (FED). In addition, we consider aggregated periods, represented by pre-,...

This paper investigates the validity of the Fisher effect hypothesis that it is the interest rate that moves to adjust to anticipated changes in the rate of inflation. The analysis is carried out with monthly data for the period 1980-97 for three countries that have a recent history of chronic...

This paper investigates the validity of the Fisher effect hypothesis that it is the interest rate that moves to adjust to anticipated changes in the rate of inflation. The analysis is carried out with monthly data for the period 1980-97 for three countries that have a recent history of chronic...