A defence of the FOMC.
We defend the forecasting performance of the FOMC from the recent criticism of Christina and David Romer. Our argument is that the FOMC forecasts a worst-case scenario that it uses to design decisions that will work well enough (are robust) despite possible misspecification of its model. Because t...
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| Formato: | Working paper |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2009
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