Not exact matches
While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float,
use federal surpluses and deficits as
macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.
While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit
use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater
use of fiscal
policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary
macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.
The RBA has
used larger
macroeconomic models in the past, but generally found their performance to be unsatisfactory from a monetary
policy perspective.
In fact, the mainstream theoretical models that we
use for monetary and
macroeconomic analysis are built on the notion that monetary
policy is conducted in a rule - like manner.
Researchers interested in exploring the relationship between
macroeconomic performance and the quality of monetary institutions should consider augmenting the Fraser and Heritage data with additional institutional indicators, such as measures of central bank independence, the
use of monetary
policy rules, freedom to
use competing forms of money, and exchange rate regimes.
In part because human capital in these high quality sectors is deep and specific, so needs to be
used to the full in exporting; in part because there are typically strong positive externalities to training and innovation systems from increased exports; in part because a tight fiscal
policy constrains wage demands in the public sector from undermining restraint of export sector unions: these countries, as well as Japan and China for similar reasons, want no constraints on their exports through
macroeconomic regulatory rules pressuring them to expand consumer demand.
I don't
use technical analysis, and I don't worry about
macroeconomics or government
policy.
[35] HEM's
Macroeconomic Activity Module makes
use of the IHS Global Insight model, which is
used by government agencies and Fortune 500 organizations to forecast the manifestations of economic events and
policy changes on notable economic indicators.
[18] HEM's
Macroeconomic Activity Module
uses the IHS Global Insight model, which is
used by government agencies and Fortune 500 organizations to forecast the effects of economic events and
policy changes on notable economic indicators.