Title
Monetary Policy Today: Sixteen Questions and about Twelve Answers
Author(s)
Alan S. Blinder Alan Blinder (Princeton University)
Abstract
My assignment is to survey the main questions swirling around monetary policy today. I emphasize three words in this sentence, each for a different reason. Main is because one person's side issue is another's main issue. So I had to be both selective and judgmental in compiling my list, else this paper would have been even longer than it is. Policy indicates that I have restricted myself to issues that are truly relevant to real-world policymakers, thus omitting many interesting but purely academic issues. Today means that I focus on current issues, thus passing over some illustrious past issues. All these omissions still leave a rather long list; so I will treat some issues quite briefly.
Creation Date
2006-07
Section URL ID
CEPS
Paper Number
129
URL
https://gceps.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/129blinder.pdf
File Function
Jel
E31, E43, E52, E58, F31, G12, R31
Keyword(s)
monetary policy
Suppress
false
Series
3