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Mainstream Economic Analysis and the Case for Accommodation
Author(s) -
EVANS CHARLES L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of money, credit and banking
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.763
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1538-4616
pISSN - 0022-2879
DOI - 10.1111/jmcb.12155
Subject(s) - mainstream , mandate , accommodation , odds , dual (grammatical number) , economics , public economics , law and economics , political science , computer science , psychology , logistic regression , law , art , literature , neuroscience , machine learning
The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate to foster both full employment and price stability. Most often these two goals are in alignment, so policies that support one objective generally support the other. However, at times the two aims can be at odds. When that happens, policies that target one goal may lead to misses on the other one. This article argues that taking a balanced approach between competing choices provides a solution that is in agreement with mainstream monetary policy rules.