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Michael Woodford

Columbia University
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The Taylor rule and optimal monetary policy

M Woodford - American Economic Review, 2001 - pubs.aeaweb.org
0.5yt yt where it denotes the Fed’s operating target for the federal funds rate, t is the inflation
rate (measured by the GDP deflator), yt is the log of real GDP, and yt is the log of potential …

Interest and prices: Foundations of a theory of monetary policy

M Woodford, CE Walsh - Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2005 - cambridge.org
Michael Woodford has been a major contributor in each of these areas, … of Woodford’s
results are now well known, thanks to the working paper versions of the book’s chapters, Woodford

An optimization-based econometric framework for the evaluation of monetary policy

JJ Rotemberg, M Woodford - NBER macroeconomics …, 1997 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper considers a simple quantitative model of output, interest rate and inflation
determination in the United States, and uses it to evaluate alternative rules by which the Fed may …

Fiscal requirements for price stability

M Woodford - 2001 - nber.org
This paper argues that maintaining price stability requires not only commitment to an
appropriate monetary policy rule, but an appropriate fiscal policy rule as well. 'Ricardian …

The cyclical behavior of prices and costs

JJ Rotemberg, M Woodford - Handbook of macroeconomics, 1999 - Elsevier
Because inputs are scarce, marginal cost is an increasing function of output. Diminishing
returns, costs of increasing employment as well as the increasing marginal disutility of working …

Monetary policy and price level determinacy in a cash-in-advance economy

M Woodford - Economic theory, 1994 - Springer
The paper considers the determinacy of the equilibrium price level in the cash-in-advance
monetary economy of Lucas and Stokey (1983, 1987), in the case of deterministic “…

Equilibrium models displaying endogenous fluctuations and chaos: a survey

M Boldrin, M Woodford - Journal of Monetary Economics, 1990 - Elsevier
This paper surveys current developments in dynamic general equilibrium theory concerned
with conditions under which endogenous fluctuations are possible. Existing contributions are …

Credit spreads and monetary policy

V Curdia, M Woodford - Journal of Money, credit and Banking, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We consider the desirability of modifying a standard Taylor rule for interest rate policy to
incorporate adjustments for measures of financial conditions. We consider the consequences of …

Macroeconomic analysis without the rational expectations hypothesis

M Woodford - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2013 - annualreviews.org
The article presents a temporary equilibrium framework for macroeconomic analysis that allows
for a wide range of possible specifications of expectations but reduces to a standard new …

Price-level determinacy without control of a monetary aggregate

M Woodford - Carnegie-Rochester conference series on public policy, 1995 - Elsevier
It is shown that the price level remains determinate even in the case of two kinds of radical
money supply endogeneity - an interest rate peg by the central bank, and a “free banking” …