By Robert M. Solow, James B. Taylor, Benjamin M. Friedman

Edited and with an advent by way of Benjamin M. Friedman the relationship among rate inflation and actual financial job has been a spotlight of macroeconomic research--and debate--for a lot of the previous century. even though this connection is an important to our knowing of what financial coverage can and can't accomplish, critiques approximately its simple houses have swung commonly over the years.Today, nearly everybody learning financial coverage recognizes that, opposite to what many sleek macroeconomic versions recommend, significant financial institution activities frequently have an effect on either inflation and measures of actual financial job, similar to output, unemployment, and earning. however the nature and importance of those results will not be but understood.In this quantity, Robert M. Solow and John B. Taylor current their perspectives at the dilemmas dealing with U.S. financial policymakers. The discussants are Benjamin M. Friedman, James ok. Galbraith, N. Gregory Mankiw, and William Poole. the purpose of this full of life trade of perspectives is to make either an highbrow contribution to macroeconmics and a functional contribution to the answer of a public coverage query of crucial value.

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Then retraces its steps back to 6 percent in the course of yet another year. The lower curve shows the month-to-month changes in the rate of inflation; the upper curve cumulates them from the beginning of the experiment. The second panel of the diagram magnifies the acceleration series from the first panel; irregular as they are, month-to-month increases in inflation never get bigger than two-tenths of a percent per month. The truly important point is that all the action is well contained. There is no precipitous burst of more rapid inflation, even after a fairly substantial sojourn below the natural rate.

Almost certainly, these shifts must have been accompanied by changes in the neutral unemployment rate, higher from 1975 to 1985 and lower now. There are, after all, plausible reasons why the neutral rate might have drifted lower. International competition is tough; Page 28 workers and employers fear that jobs and business lost now may never be regained. The political atmosphere does not favor workers. Service industries are growing in importance, and they are not organized in exactly the same way as traditional industries.

Hence, it appears that this type of monetary policy is responsible not only for a long period of inflation stability, but also for a long period of remarkable output and employment stability. Page 55 3 Comments Benjamin M. Friedman Four pressing questions about the conduct of monetary policy have framed much of the discussion of this subject in recent years, and I would like to frame my remarks about Bob's and John's chapters in just those terms: First, does monetary policy affect real economic activity (as opposed to nominal magnitudes only)?

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