The conquest of US inflation: Learning and robustness to model uncertainty

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 8, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 528-563

  Cogley, Timothy ^a   Sargent, Thomas J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipated utility; Bayes' law; Natural unemployement rate; Phillips curve; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244375561     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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