Abstract

BLANCHARD, Olivier; DELL'ARICCIA, Giovanni  and  MAURO, Paolo. RETHINKING MACROECONOMIC POLICY. Rev.econ.inst. [online]. 2010, vol.12, n.22, pp.61-82. ISSN 0124-5996.

The great moderation lulled macroeconomists and policymakers alike in the belief that we knew how to conduct macroeconomic policy. The crisis clearly forces to question that assessment. This paper reviews the main elements of the pre-crisis consensus, identify where we were wrong and what tenets of the pre-crisis framework still hold, and take a tentative first pass at the contours of a new macroeconomic policy framework.

Keywords : macroeconomic policy; macroprudential regulation; inflation targets; automatic stabilizers.

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