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Presentation to the Financial Women’s Association of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, October 15, 2012
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The zero lower bound on nominal interest rates has constrained the Federal Reserve’s setting of the overnight federal funds rate for over three years running. According to many macroeconomic models, such an extended period of being stuck at the zero bound has important implications for the...
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Presentation to the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, San Francisco, California, November 14, 2012
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and the economy, and it is unclear to what extent those yields have been affected by the zero lower bound. In this paper …
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expectations in the economy and in the conduct of monetary policy. Agents are assumed to have imperfect knowledge of the precise … structure of the economy and the policymakers' preferences. Expectations are governed by a perpetual learning technology. With …
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This paper investigates the role that imperfect knowledge about the structure of the economy plays in the formation of … learning technology to form expectations and continuously update their beliefs regarding the dynamic structure of the economy …
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reference model while the true economy lies within a specified neighborhood of the reference model. In this paper, we show that … economy. We find that a robust outcome is attainable only in cases where the objective function places substantial weight on … tolerance of each model economy with respect to deviations from optimal policy. …
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knowledge of the economy and continuously update their estimates of model parameters. We find that versions of the Taylor rule …
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Using a short-term interest rate as the monetary policy instrument can be problematic near its zero bound constraint. An alternative strategy is to use a long-term interest rate as the policy instrument. We find when Taylor-type policy rules are used to set the long rate in a standard New...
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U.S. economy, estimated over the 1969-2002 period, we show that the cost of underestimating the extent of misperceptions …
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