Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

James H. Stock · Mark W. Watson

This 2012 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity paper by James Stock and Mark Watson asks whether the unusual severity of the 2007-09 recession and the weakness of the recovery that followed required …

Ben S. Bernanke · Vincent R. Reinhart · Brian P. Sack

This 2004 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity paper by Ben Bernanke, Vincent Reinhart, and Brian Sack asks whether "nonstandard" monetary policies can still work once the short-term policy rate is …

Arvind Krishnamurthy · Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

This 2011 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity paper by Arvind Krishnamurthy and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen evaluates the effect of the Federal Reserve's large-scale purchases of long-term Treasuries …

Gauti B. Eggertsson · Michael Woodford

This 2003 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity article by Gauti Eggertsson and Michael Woodford builds a fully dynamic New Keynesian general-equilibrium model — Calvo (1983) staggered pricing, money …

Eric M. Leeper · Christopher A. Sims · Tao Zha

This 1996 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity paper by Eric Leeper, Christopher Sims, and Tao Zha asks what monetary policy actually does, and argues that the answer the identified-VAR literature …