Propositions about long-run neutrality are at the heart of macroeconomics. In the 1970s, Lucas and Sargent criticized traditional neutrality tests, suggesting that long-run propositions could not be tested without a detailed structural model. Yet, when nominal variables are integrated, long-run...

There has been a substantial amount of research on interest rate rules. This literature finds that the feasibility and desirability of interest rate rules depends on the structure of the model used to approximate macroeconomic reality. We employ a series of macroeconomic models to shed light on...