Most Recent Articles from Economic Quarterly

• On the evolution of income inequality in the United States. 

  The recent rise in income inequality in the United States has received considerable attention in policy debates. (1) This article discusses...

  03/22/08 by Bryan, Kevin A. · More from publication

• On the sources of movements in inflation expectations: a few insights from a VAR model.(Value added resellers) 

  The public's expectations of inflation play an important role in influencing actual inflation and the Federal Reserve's ability to achieve price...

  03/22/08 by Mehra, Yash P. · More from publication

• What is the monetary standard, or, how did the Volcker-Greenspan FOMCs tame inflation?(Federal Open Market Committee) 

  What is the monetary standard? Another way to ask this question is to ask how central banks control the price level. In this article, I contrast...

  03/22/08 by Hetzel, Robert L. · More from publication

• Limits to redistribution and intertemporal wedges: implications of Pareto optimality with private information. 

  Traditionally an object of interest in microeconomics, models with privately informed agents have recently been used to study numerous topics in...

  03/22/08 by Grochulski, Borys · More from publication

• Exchange rates and business cycles across countries. 

  Modern theories of exchange rate determination typically imply a close relationship between exchange rates and other macroeconomic variables such...

  01/01/07 by Duarte, Margarida; Restuccia, Diego; Waddle, Andrea L. · More from publication

• Implications of some alternatives to capital income taxation. 

  A general prescription of economic theory is that taxes on capital income are bad. That is, a robust feature of a large variety of models is that...

  01/01/07 by Athreya, Kartik B.; Waddle, Andrea L. · More from publication

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