My paper “Rules versus Discretion in Monetary Policy Historically Contemplated” which I spoke about last September at the Mercatus Center Conference on rules for a post-crisis world has been accepted by the Journal of Macroeconomics. I posted a draft of the concluding section of the paper on this blog several weeks ago. An abstract, and a complete draft, of the paper are available on the journal website, but only the abstract is ungated.
I have posted a draft of the paper on SSRN where it may now be downloaded. Here is the abstract of the paper.
Monetary-policy rules are attempts to cope with the implications of having a medium of exchange whose value exceeds its cost of production. Two classes of monetary rules can be identified: (1) price rules that target the value of money in terms of a real commodity, e.g., gold, or in terms of some…
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