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100 1 _aTaylor, John B.
_921553
245 1 0 _aImprovements in Macroeconomic Stability:
_bThe Role of Wages and Prices /
_cJohn B. Taylor.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c1984.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w1491
500 _aNovember 1984.
520 3 _aThis paper compares macroeconomic performance in the United States from 1891 through 1914 with the period after the Second World War by estimating reduced form autoregressions for prices, wages and output, by looking at their moving average representations, and by giving them simple structural interpretations. The results show that the impulses to the economic system were smaller in the later period, but the propagation mechanisms are much slower and more drawn out. The smaller shocks are therefore translated into larger and more prolonged fluctuations in output and inflation than would occur if the earlier dynamics were applicable in the later period. A tentative explanation for the changes in the dynamics is a slower speed of wage and price adjustment combined with a different accommodative stance for the monetary system.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aC - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w1491.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w1491
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w1491
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_cW-PAPER
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