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- Title
Some Estimation Effects of Selecting Economic Policy Horizons for Macroeconomic Models.
- Authors
Adam, Christopher M.
- Abstract
A basic IS-LM model is used to discuss how parameter estimates may be affected if the observation period on data collected by policy makers (the model builders) differs from that of agents whose behaviour generates the data but who are not policy makers. Estimates may be both biased and inconsistent. In addition, the statistical inconsistency is a function not only of the difference in time horizons, but of the values of the policy instruments used by the policy makers. Optimal economic policy here thus involves the establishment of instrument settings and particular levels of statistical inconsistencies in the estimated models.
- Subjects
IS-LM model (Macroeconomics); ECONOMIC policy
- Publication
Economic Record, 1980, Vol 56, Issue 155, p374
- ISSN
0013-0249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-4932.1980.tb01690.x