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How can we measure the welfare benefit of ongoing stabilization policies? We develop a methodology to calculate the … welfare cost of business cycles taking into account that observed consumption is partially smoothed. We propose a … decomposition that disentangles consumption in a mix of laissez-faire (absent policies) and riskless components. With a novel …
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cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- A Simple Model of Unemployment and Inflation Dynamics -- Unemployment, the Output Gap, and the Welfare Costs of Economic Fluctuations -- Unemployment and Monetary Policy Design in the New Keynesian Model -- Concluding Remarks and...
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In this paper, we measure the potential welfare gains from counter-cyclical policy in an economy with incomplete markets. In the course of conducting this measurement, we focus on two questions as central to the determination of those potential gains: (1) what is the likely effect of...
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