Monetary policy tradeoff: Stabilizing output, prices, and wages faces challenges.
The article discusses how monetary policy affects the economy when wages and prices are not adjusted immediately. The researchers found that the optimal policy for stabilizing the economy involves balancing the output gap, price inflation, and wage inflation. They also discovered that focusing solely on controlling price inflation can lead to significant welfare losses. Overall, simple policy rules can perform almost as well as the optimal rule in this scenario.