@techreport{NBERw8174, title = "Monetary Policy Analysis in Models Without Money", author = "Bennett T. McCallum", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "8174", year = "2001", month = "March", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w8174", abstract = {The following arguments are developed: (i) models without monetary aggregates do not imply that inflation is a non-monetary phenomenon and are not necessarily non-monetary models; (ii) theoretical considerations suggest that such models are misspecified, but the quantitative significance of this misspecification is very small; (iii) some prominent arguments based on indeterminacy' findings are of dubious merit: there are reasons for believing that findings of solution multiplicity are theoretical curiosities that have no real world significance; (iv) monetary policy rules that violate the Taylor principle, by contrast, possess another characteristic the absence of E-stability that suggests undesirable behavior in practice.}, }