E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies
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Alternative Public Spending Rules and Output Volatility
One of the central lessons learned from the Great Depression was that adjusting government spending each year to balance the budget increases the volatility of output. -
Inflation Expectations and Learning about Monetary Policy
Various measures indicate that inflation expectations evolve sluggishly relative to actual inflation. In addition, they often fail conventional tests of unbiasedness.