John B. Taylor

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Taylor, John B. (October 1975). "Monetary policy during a transition to rational expectations". Journal of Political Economy . 83 (5): 1009–22. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.740.3676 . doi:10.1086/260374. JSTOR   1830083. S2CID   8603588.
  • Taylor, John B.; Phelps, Edmund S. (February 1977). "Stabilizing powers of monetary policy under rational expectations". Journal of Political Economy . 85 (1): 163–90. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.741.1432 . doi:10.1086/260550. JSTOR   1828334. S2CID   14729818.
  • Taylor, John B. (May 1979). "Staggered wage setting in a macro model". The American Economic Review . 69 (2). American Economic Association: 108–113. JSTOR   1801626.
  • Reprinted in Taylor, John B. (1991), "Staggered wage setting in a macro model", in Mankiw, N. Gregory; Romer, David (eds.), New Keynesian economics, volume 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 233–42, ISBN   9780262631334.

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    References

    1. Taylor, John B. (September 24, 2016). "The Statistical Analysis of Policy Rules". economicsone.com. Economics One (A blog by John B. Taylor). Retrieved October 2, 2016.
    2. "Hoover Institution Senior Fellow: Biography". Hoover Institution . Retrieved 27 October 2011.
    3. Taylor, John B. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Stanford University.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
    4. Taylor, John B. (May 1979). "Staggered wage setting in a macro model". The American Economic Review . 69 (2). American Economic Association: 108–113. JSTOR   1801626.
      Reprinted in Taylor, John B. (1991), "Staggered wage setting in a macro model", in Mankiw, N. Gregory; Romer, David (eds.), New Keynesian economics, volume 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 233–242, ISBN   9780262631334.
    5. Taylor, John B. (February 1980). "Aggregate dynamics and staggered contracts". Journal of Political Economy . 88 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1086/260845. JSTOR   1830957. S2CID   154446910.
    6. 1 2 Taylor, John B. (December 1993). "Discretion versus policy rules in practice". Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy . 39: 195–214. doi:10.1016/0167-2231(93)90009-L. Pdf.
    7. Taylor, John B. (2007). Global financial warriors: the untold story of international finance in the post-9/11 world. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN   9780393064483.
    8. "Hall of 'citation laureates' (in economics)". science.thomsonreuters.com. Thomson-Reuters. Archived from the original on 2011-12-02. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
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    11. Taylor, John Brian. Princeton University. Department of Economics (ed.). "Fiscal and Monetary Stabilization Policies in a Model of Cyclical Growth".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
    12. Taylor, John B. (September 1979). "Estimation and control of a macroeconomic model with rational expectations". Econometrica . 47 (5): 1267–86. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.741.8996 . doi:10.2307/1911962. JSTOR   1911962. Pdf.
      Reprinted in Taylor, John B. (1981), "Estimation and control of a macroeconomic model with rational expectations", in Lucas, Jr., Robert E.; Sargent, Thomas J. (eds.), Rational expectations and econometric practice , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN   9780816610983.
    13. 1 2 Taylor, John B. (1993). Macroeconomic policy in a world economy: from econometric design to practical operation . New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN   9780393963168.
    14. Ben Bernanke refers to the “three concepts named after John that are central to understanding our macroeconomic experience of the past three decades—the Taylor curve, the Taylor rule, and the Taylor principle.” in “Opening Remarks,” Conference on John Taylor’s Contributions to Monetary Theory and Policy
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    16. Yellen, Janet (2007). Policymaker Roundtable (PDF). Remarks at the Conference on John Taylor's Contributions to Monetary Theory and Policy.
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    18. Taylor, John B. (September 1979). "Estimation and control of a macroeconomic model with rational expectations". Econometrica . 47 (5): 1267–86. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.741.8996 . doi:10.2307/1911962. JSTOR   1911962.
    19. Taylor, John B.; Fair, Ray C. (July 1983). "Solution and maximum likelihood estimation of dynamic nonlinear rational expectations models". Econometrica . 51 (4): 1169–85. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.75.6815 . doi:10.2307/1912057. JSTOR   1912057. S2CID   122888958.
    20. Judd, Kenneth; Kubler, Felix; Schmedders, Karl (2003), "Computational methods for dynamic equilibria with heterogeneous agents", in Dewatripont, Mathias; Hansen, Lars Peter; Turnovsky, Stephen J. (eds.), Advances in economics and econometrics theory and applications (volume 3), Cambridge, U.K. New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 247, ISBN   9781280163388 and “Eviews Users Guide II.”
    21. Taylor, John B.; Phelps, Edmund S. (February 1977). "Stabilizing powers of monetary policy under rational expectations". Journal of Political Economy . 85 (1): 163–90. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.741.1432 . doi:10.1086/260550. JSTOR   1828334. S2CID   14729818.
    22. Sargent, Thomas; Wallace, Neil (April 1975). "'Rational' expectations, the optimal monetary instrument, and the optimal money supply rule". Journal of Political Economy . 83 (2): 241–54. doi:10.1086/260321. JSTOR   1830921. S2CID   154301791.
    23. Blanchard, Olivier (2000), "Epliogue", in Blanchard, Olivier (ed.), Macroeconomics (2nd ed.), Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, p. 543, ISBN   9780130557872.
    24. Galbács, Peter (2015). The theory of new classical macroeconomics: a positive critique. Contributions to Economics. Heidelberg / New York / Dordrecht / London: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17578-2. ISBN   9783319175782.
    25. King, Robert G.; Wolman, Alexander (1999), "What should the monetary authority do when prices are sticky?", in Taylor, John B. (ed.), Monetary policy rules, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN   9780226791265.
    26. Taylor, John B. (1999), "Staggered price and wage setting in macroeconomics", in Taylor, John B.; Woodford, Michael (eds.), Handbook of macroeconomics, Amsterdam New York: North-Holland Elsevier, pp. 1009–50, ISBN   9780444501585.
    27. Taylor, John B. (April 1968). Fiscal and monetary stabilization policies in a model of endogenous cyclical growth (BA thesis). Princeton University.
    28. Taylor, John B. (October 1968). "Fiscal and monetary stabilization policies in a model of endogenous cyclical growth" (PDF). Research Memorandum No. 104. Econometric Research Program, Princeton University. OCLC   22687344.
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    30. Bernanke, Ben (2004). The Great Moderation. Remarks at the meeting of the Eastern Economic Association.
    31. Orphanides, Athanasios (2007). Taylor rules (PDF). Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007–18. Federal Reserve Board.
    32. Davig, Troy; Leeper, Eric M. (June 2007). "Generalizing the Taylor Principle" (PDF). American Economic Review . 97 (3): 607–35. doi:10.1257/aer.97.3.607. JSTOR   30035014.
    33. Clarida, Richard; Galí, Jordi; Gertler, Mark (February 2000). "Monetary policy rules and macroeconomic stability: evidence and some theory". Quarterly Journal of Economics . 115 (1): 147–80. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.111.7984 . doi:10.1162/003355300554692. S2CID   5448436. Pdf.
    34. Taylor, John B. (2008), "Housing and monetary policy", in Reserve Bank of Kansas City (ed.), Housing, housing finance, and monetary policy: a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 30-September 1, 2007, Kansas City, Missouri: Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pp. 463–76, OCLC   170267547
    35. Taylor, John B. (2009), "The financial crisis and the policy response: an empirical analysis of what went wrong (housing and monetary policy)", in Bank of Canada Staff (ed.), Festschrift in honour of David Dodge's contributions to Canadian public policy: proceedings of a conference held by the Bank of Canada, November, 2008, Ottawa: Bank of Canada, pp. 1–18, ISBN   9780660199276.
    36. Taylor, John B. (February 9, 2009). "How government created the financial crisis". The Wall Street Journal . p. A19. Pdf.
    37. Taylor, John B. (November 25, 2008). "Why permanent tax cuts are the best stimulus". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved June 30, 2011.
    38. Taylor, John B.; Cogan, John F.; Cwik, Tobias; Wieland, Volker (March 2010). "New Keynesian versus old Keynesian government spending multipliers" (PDF). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control . 34 (3): 281–95. doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2010.01.010. S2CID   14892522.
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    40. Taylor, John B. (September 2011). "An empirical analysis of the revival of fiscal activism in the 2000s". Journal of Economic Literature . 49 (3): 686–702. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.359.9195 . doi:10.1257/jel.49.3.686. JSTOR   23071727. Pdf.
    41. "Taylor Says U.S. Needs 'Sound' Monetary, Fiscal Policies". Bloomberg Television thru Washington Post. June 27, 2011. Archived from the original on November 12, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
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