Links to papers by Edward Nelson

 

The following list is intended to provide convenient links to downloadable versions of papers on monetary policy authored or coauthored by Edward Nelson.  The list is in reverse chronological order.

 

1.  Money and the Transmission Mechanism in the Optimizing IS-LM Specification,” CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3898, May 2003.  Presented at the History of Political Economy Conference on “The IS-LM Model: Its Rise, Fall, and Strange Persistence,” Duke University, April 25-27, 2003.

Link: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/kdhoover/hope.html

 

2.  “Comment on Marc P. Giannoni and Michael Woodford, ‘Optimal Inflation Targeting Rules,’” March 2003.  Forthcoming in M. Woodford (ed.), Inflation Targeting, NBER Conference Series, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

 

Link: http://www.nber.org/books/inflation-targeting/index.html

 

3.  Book Review: A. Leijonhufvud (ed.), Monetary Theory and Policy Experience, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 41(3), September 2003, pp. 914-915.

 

4.  “The Future of Monetary Aggregates in Monetary Policy Analysis,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 50(5), July 2003, forthcoming.  Also CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3897, May 2003.

Link: http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=3897

 

5. “An Interview with Anna J. Schwartz.”  In preparation.

 

6.  “The Exchange Rate and Inflation in the UK.”  Presented at conference “Policy Rules—The Next Steps,” Cambridge University, UK, September 19-20, 2002.  Bank of England External MPC Unit Discussion Paper No. 11, October 2002, and CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3783, February 2003.  (With Amit Kara.)

Link: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mpc/extmpcpaper0011.pdf

 

7.  “The Real-Interest-Rate Gap as an Inflation Indicator,” Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 7(2), April 2003, pp. 239-262.  (With Katharine S. Neiss.)

 

8.  Discussion of Christopher J. Erceg and Andrew T. Levin, “Optimal Monetary Policy with Durable and Non-Durable Goods,” International Research Forum on Monetary Policy, ECB, Frankfurt, July 5-6, 2002.

Link: http://www.ecb.int/events/conf/intforum/material/Nelson.pdf

 

9.  “Inflation Dynamics, Marginal Cost, and the Output Gap: Evidence from Three Countries,” manuscript, revised July 2002.  Presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco/SIEPR Conference on Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy, March 2002, and at the International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISOM), June 2002, ECB, Frankfurt.  (With Katharine S. Neiss.)

Link: http://www.nber.org/~confer/2002/isom02/nelson.pdf

 

10.  “News-Magazine Monetarism,” CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3506, August 2002. Forthcoming in K. Matthews and P. Minford (eds.), Money Matters: Essays in Honour of Alan Walters.  Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003.

Link: http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=3506

 

11. “Comment on: ‘A Simple Framework for International Monetary Policy Analysis’ by Richard Clarida, Jordi Galí, and Mark Gertler,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 49(5), July 2002, pp. 905-912.

 

12. “Direct Effects of Base Money on Aggregate Demand: Theory and Evidence,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 49(4), May 2002, pp. 687-708.

 

13. “Monetary Policy and Stagflation in the UK,” Bank of England Working Paper No. 155, May 2002, and CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3458, July 2002.  Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, forthcoming.  (With Kalin Nikolov.)

Link:  http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/workingpapers/wp155.pdf

 

14. “UK Inflation in the 1970s and 1980s: The Role of Output Gap Mismeasurement,” CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2999, October 2001; Bank of England Working Paper No.148, December 2001.  Journal of Economics and Business, forthcoming.  (With Kalin Nikolov.)

Link: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/workingpapers/wp148.pdf

 

15. “What Does the UK’s Monetary Policy and Inflation Experience Tell Us About the Transmission Mechanism?,” CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3047,October 2001.  In L. Mahadeva and P. Sinclair (eds.), Monetary Transmission in Diverse Economies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 137-155.

Link:  http://www.cepr.org/Pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=3047

 

16. “UK Monetary Policy 1972–97: A Guide Using Taylor Rules,” CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2931, August 2001 [revised November 2001].  Forthcoming in P. Mizen (ed.), Central Banking, Monetary Theory and Practice: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodhart, Volume One.  Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003.

Link: http://www.cepr.org/Pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=2931

 

17. “The Lag from Monetary Policy Actions to Inflation: Friedman Revisited,” International Finance, Vol. 4(3), Winter 2001, pp. 381-400.  (With Nicoletta Batini.) 

 

18. “Optimal Horizons for Inflation Targeting,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 25(6-7), June-July 2001, pp. 891910.  (With Nicoletta Batini.)

 

19. “When the Bubble Bursts: Monetary Policy Rules and Foreign Exchange Market Behavior,” manuscript, Bank of England, October 2000.  (With Nicoletta Batini.)

Link: http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/economics/seminars/MonetaryPolicy/Battini&Nelson.pdf

 

20. “Timeless Perspective vs. Discretionary Monetary Policy in Forward-Looking Models,” NBER Working Paper No. 7915, September 2000. (With Bennett T. McCallum.)

Link: http://wpweb2.tepper.cmu.edu/faculty/mccallum/TPrule2.pdf

 

21. “Monetary Policy for an Open Economy: An Alternative Approach with Optimizing Agents and Sticky Prices,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy Vol. 16(4), Winter 2000, pp. 7491.  (With Bennett T. McCallum.)

Link to longer version: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mpc/extmpcpaper0005.pdf

 

22. “Nominal Income Targeting in an Open-Economy Optimizing Model,” Journal of Monetary Economics Vol. 43(3), June 1999, pp. 553578. (With Bennett T. McCallum.)

Link to older version: http://www.tepper.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/gsia/bm05/w6675.pdf

 

23. “Performance of Operational Policy Rules in an Estimated Semi-Classical Structural Model,” in: John B. Taylor (ed.), Monetary Policy Rules.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 1999, pp. 1545.  (With Bennett T. McCallum.)

 

24. “An Optimizing IS-LM Specification for Monetary Policy and Business Cycle Analysis,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking Vol. 31(3), August 1999, pp. 296316.  (With Bennett T. McCallum.)

 

25. “Sluggish Inflation and Optimizing Models of the Business Cycle,” Journal of Monetary Economics Vol. 42(2), July 1998, pp. 303322.