Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175490 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Research Report No. 2016-4
Publisher: 
The University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics, London (Ontario)
Abstract: 
The problems posed by monetary policy cannot be dealt with by legislating enduring policy rules. With the passage of time, economic understanding does not systematically converge ever more closely on a "true" model of the economy, a process which is now sufficiently far along that our current ideas can form the basis for designing such measures. Rather, economic ideas evolve unsteadily and unpredictably and disagreement about them is routine. They influence the behaviour of the economy and they are influenced by it as they develop, requiring policy principles to adapt as well. Monetary policy thus poses problems that cannot be solved once and for all, but must be coped with continuously.
Subjects: 
Monetary Policy
Rules versus Discretion
Gold Standard
Revolutions in Macroeconomics
JEL: 
E5
B1
B2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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