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Chapter 15: Macroeconomic Policy: Tradeoffs, Expectations, Credibility, and Sources of Business Cycles


Web assignments:

  1. The Economic Report of the President
  2. A Case for Independence
  3. Establishing Federal Reserve Inflation Goals

Web materials related to topics discussed in Chapter 15

A Federal Reserve View on Credibility in Monetary Policy and Bank Supervision (by Jack Guynn)
A discussion by the President of the Atlanta Fed on the need for credibility in monetary policy. While the discussion is focues primarily on the problems of central banking in Latin American countries, the same issues appear in the U.S. as well.

Online macroeconomic econometric models
This page contains links to a few online econometric models that can be used to generate forecasts of macroeconomic variables.

The Livingston Survey
This page contains the results from a survey of economists' expectations about output, unemployment, and inflation. The survey was begun by Joseph A. Livingston in 1946 and has been conducted by the Philadelphia Fed since 1990.

Macroeconomic statistics and data sites
This page contains links to sites that provide online data on macroeconomic data (such as GDP, C, I, G, and X).

Survey of Professional Forecasters
A quarterly survey of macroeconomic forecasts begun in 1968 by the American Statistical Association and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Since 1990, it has been conducted by the Philadelphia Fed.

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Other economic resources
This page contains a set of links to economic resources that may be of interest to introductory economics students.

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