Benefits from U.S. monetary policy experimentation in the days of Samuelson and Solow and Lucas

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages 67-99

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' law; Bayesian analysis; Central banks and their policies; Dynamic analysis; Intentional experimentation; Learning; Model uncertainty; Opportunism; Optimization techniques; Phillips curve; Programming models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847297018     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2007.00016.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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