Quantitative Ease by Carola Binder

I recently updated my Consumer Inflation Uncertainty Index through October 2017. Data is available here  and the official (gated) publicati...

I had the pleasure of attending “ Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy IV ” at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. I highly recom...

Last semester, my senior thesis advisee Alex Rodrigue conducted a survey-based information experiment via Amazon Mechanical Turk . We have c...

On voxeu.org , Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Timo Boppart, Peter Klenow, and Huiyu Li discuss their recent work on the measurement of ...

In a recently-released research note , Federal Reserve Board economists  Alan Detmeister , David Lebow , and Ekaterina Peneva  summarize new...

Randal Verbrugge and I have just published a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Commentary called " Digging into the Downward T...

Ever since the FOMC announcement in 2012 that 2% PCE inflation is consistent with the Fed's price stability mandate, economists have qu...

In my working paper " Measuring Uncertainty Based on Rounding: New Method and Application to Inflation Expectations ," I develop a...

Earlier this month, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley gave a speech on " The U.S. Economic Outlook and Implications fo...

In my job market paper last year, I constructed a new measure of households' inflation uncertainty based on people's tendency to use...

"Various monetary proposals can be viewed as inflation targeting with a nonstandard price index: The gold standard uses only the price...

Inflation targeting (IT) was widely adopted by central banks in both industrialized and emerging-market countries in the 1990s and 2000s. T...

From my post at the Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) blog : Brazilians will head to the polls on October 5 to vote in a t...

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...

At a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen called the Fed the " the m...

Recently, inflation in the United States has been consistently below its 2% target. The situation in Sweden is similar, but has lasted much...

Narayana Kocherlakota, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, described the benefits of price level targeting to the Econom...

1. Rajan Signals India Inflation Target Amid Vote Tension (Bloomberg) : India central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan may attempt to make infla...

Depending on whom you ask and when, Abenomics is or is not working, and Japan is or is not entering a recovery. What if you ask th...