The recent global financial crisis, the Great Recession and the subsequent implementation of a variety of unconventional policy measures have raised the issue of how to correctly measure the stance of monetary policy when policy interest rates reach the zero lower bound (ZLB). In this paper, we...

We design new policies that ensure both worst-case optimality for expected regret and light-tailed risk for regret distribution in the stochastic multi-armed bandit problem. Recently, \cite{fan2021fragility} showed that information-theoretically optimized bandit algorithms suffer from some...

We provide a robustness check of the US Phillips curve in the frequency domain. We design frequency-specific coeffcients of correlation (FSCC) and regression (FSCR), based on our frequency-specific data extraction procedure. Being real-valued, signed and normalised, the FSCC is superior to...