Unemployment and Inflation Trade-Off Key in Designing Monetary Policy
The article explores how monetary policy can be designed in a model with sticky prices and labor market frictions. The researchers found that the trade-off between inflation and unemployment is important for policymakers. They also discovered that uncertainty about the natural rate of unemployment has a bigger impact on policy than uncertainty about other factors. Overall, policies that respond to gaps in output or unemployment are more effective than those responding to growth rates, even when there is uncertainty about natural rates.