For our purposes today, I will note that the crucial insight of John’s paper was that, whereas a central bank could pick the “k” in a “k-percent” rule on its own, without any reference to the underlying parameters of the economy (including r* and u*), a welldesigned rule for setting a short-term interest rate as a policy instrument should, John argued, respect several requirements.
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