President Charles Plosser discusses his views on the benefits of a systematic and rule-like approach to monetary policy.

type="main" <p>The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia argues that the Federal Open Market Committee, by operating with a set of rules or guidelines and clearly stated objectives, could eliminate much of the second guessing about what it is doing and why, and the associated...</p>

Innovation in financial markets, spurred to a significant extent by developments in finance theory and financial econometrics, has played a critical role in spurring economic growth. However, the current turmoil in financial markets raises fundamental questions about the nature of financial...

This paper conducts a modern variant of the test proposed and carried out by Adelman and Adelman (1959). Using the methods developed by Burns and Mitchell (1946). we see if we can distinguish between the economic series generated by an actual economy and those analogous artificial series...

This paper focuses on the role of money in economic fluctuations. While money may play an important role in market economies, its role as an important impulse to business cycles remains a highly controversial hypothesis. For years economists have attempted to construct monetary theories of the...