Has U.S. Monetary Policy Really Improved? A 150‑Year Perspective
Has U.S. monetary policy actually improved over time? Or was the apparent success of the modern Federal Reserve mostly the result of more favorable economic conditions and better luck? In this post, we summarize our paper , * which develops a framework for comparing monetary policy across different economic environments. Our approach asks how close policy came to the best response given the…
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