The Assessment: Macroeconomic Policy

Christopher Allsop and David Vines

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2000, vol. 16, issue 4, 1-32

Abstract: This paper describes the emerging consensus about the "reaction function" approach to macroeconomic policy. The first section of the paper describes the historical emergence of this consensus, as a synthesis of pre-Keynesian, Keynesian, and monetarist ideas. The theoretical part of the paper presents the basic framework of the approach and explains a number of extensions, including: finding the optimal reaction function, avoiding the problem of inflation bias, the relevance of the Taylor rule, forward-looking expectations, extensions to the open economy, and the interconnections between monetary and fiscal policy. The later parts of the paper contain a detailed discussion of some of the practical and institutional issues involved in the implementation of this new framework. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 2000
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