Long-term interest rates have for long played an ambiguous role in the operation of monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 that created the Federal Reserve set the monetary policy objective to be: '... to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment stable prices and moderate long-term ...

Following on Keynes’s desire that economists be as useful as dentists, Lucas (1980) argues that this would amount to the following: “Our task, as I see it, is to write a FORTRAN program that will accept specific economic policy rules as ‘input’ and will generate as ‘output’ statistics describing the ...

Los bancos centrales suelen preferir tasas de interés de largo plazo como meta o como diagnóstico de política. Este artículo describe dos episodios históricos en que esto ha sucedido —Estados Unidos en 1942-51 y el Reino Unido en la década de 1960— y utiliza un modelo de dinámica inflacionaria para ...