During his confirmation hearing in 1979 before the Senate Banking Committee, the soon-to-be Fed chairman Paul Volcker pledged to make fighting inflation the top priority of the Federal Reserve. Suppose the Federal Reserve had announced in 1980 an inflation target of 2% and everyone in the economy had believed that this announcement is credible (i.e. that the Federal Reserve manages to reduce inflation to 2% almost immediately), then ___________
inflation expectations would have rapidly declined and the Federal Reserve would not have had to increase interest rates by as much as it did in order to get inflation to decline. |
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the high oil price of the late 1970s and early 1980s would have had no effect on the U.S. economy. |
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inflation in the 1980s would have fallen even if the output gap had remained positive. |
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the Federal funds rate would not have been constrained by the zero lower bound. |
The federal reserve manages to reduce inflation to 2% almost immediately then the jobless rate can reduced and it can also reduce the businesses experienced liquidity problems. Economy can run in normal way. The economy entered a new period of sustained growth and low inflation
During his confirmation hearing in 1979 before the Senate Banking Committee, the soon-to-be Fed chairman Paul...
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