Quantitative Ease by Carola Binder

In the Washington Post, Jared Bernstein  asks why the Fed's inflation target is 2 percent. "The fact is that the target is 2 percen...

Lately I have been working on a Great Depression-era economic history paper to constitute one chapter of my dissertation. The practice of wr...

Paul Krugman has an "extremely wonky" new post about how to measure inflation expectations in Japan under Abenomics. The measure ...

The title of Matt O'Brien's recent post--" Uncertainty Isn't Killing the Recovery "-- summarizes a slurry of recent ar...

On March 6, 2013, Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser argued that low interest rates are actually causing people to save more, not le...

I recently wrote an article for the forthcoming Global Economic History Encyclopedia about inflation targeting. I only submitted the article...