Abstract
After describing the landscape in macroeconomics and econometrics in Spring 1973 when Robert E. Lucas (1976) first presented his Critique at the inaugural Carnegie-Rochester conference, I add a fourth example based on Sargent and Wallace (1973) to those in section 5 of Lucas's paper. To portray consequences of Lucas's Critique, I use it as a vehicle to describe the time inconsistency of optimal plans and their credibility. A theory of government policy affects chains of influence among money creation and inflation rates at different dates. Different theories of policy bring different state vectors in recursive representations of inflation-money-supply outcomes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2-13 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Monetary Economics |
Volume | 141 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2024 |
Keywords
- Cross-equation restrictions
- Dynamic programming squared
- Rational expectations
- Time-inconsistency
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Finance
- Economics and Econometrics