Robustness and U.S. Monetary Policy Experimentation

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1599-1623

  Cogley, Timothy ^a   Colacito, Riccardo ^b   Hansen, Lars Peter ^c   Sargent, Thomas J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' law; Entropy; Experimentation; Learning; Model uncertainty; Pessimism; Phillips curve; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449109945     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2008.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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