Arbeitspapier
The Macroeconomic Loss Function: A Critical Note
The standard loss function gives the same weight to positive and negative deviations from the output and inflation targets. This short note criticizes this symmetry assumption. If the period covered is long enough output growth in excess of the target, and often also inflation rates that are below target, should be counted as gains instead of losses.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 02-2
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
- Thema
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Loss functions
macro policy evaluation
Volkswirtschaftlicher Schaden
Bewertung
Gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion
Inflation
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mayer, Thomas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of California, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Davis, CA
- (wann)
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2002
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
- 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Mayer, Thomas
- University of California, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2002