Richard Clarida presented “Monetary policy in open economies–Practical perspectives for pragmatic central bankers” at John Taylor’s 2014 conference “Frameworks for Central Banking in the Next Century” . The following is a cleaned up version of my comments and question to Prof. Clarida. The original transcript is at the end of this post. I’m Ken Judd […]
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Today I received an email from the University of Chicago Research Computing Center entitled “Celebrating Ten Years”. The RCC Director is Birali Runesha whose welcome describes its goals. I want to extend my congratulations to RCC and Birali for their excellent work over the past ten years. I was a frequent visitor at the University
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Like most economists, I like to ask questions in seminars and conferences. Sometimes the answers are quite informative. One interesting case was In November, 2017, I attended the Midwest Macroeconomics conference (https://editorialexpress.com/conference/MMMPitt/program/MMMPitt.html#block_detail_3). Xavier Gabaix was one of the plenary speakers. The tile of his talk was “Behavioral Macroeconomics” and he presented a paper titled “Behavioral
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Cai, Lontzek and I submitted our paper on the social cost of carbon in November, 2012, and received referee reports and a revision request from Monika Piazessi, the JPE editor handling the submission, in November, 2013. A couple of months later, we met with her to discuss the revision. In particular, I wanted to explain
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