The Performance of Alternative Monetary Regimes

Laurence M. Ball

NBER Working Paper No. 16124
Issued in June 2010

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This paper will be a chapter in the Handbook of Monetary Economics (Friedman and Woodford, eds). I am grateful for research assistance from James Lake, Connor Larr, Xu Lu, and Rodrigo Sekkel, and for suggestions from Patricia Bovers, Jon Faust, Benjamin Friedman, Petra Geraats, Carlos Goncalvez, Yingyao Hu, Andrew Levin, Lars Svensson, Tiemen Woutersen, Jonathan Wright, participants in the ECB’s October 2009 conference on Key Developments in Monetary Economics, and seminar participants at the University of Delaware. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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