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Tax structure, optimal fiscal policy, and the business cycle
Guo, Jang-Ting; Lansing, Kevin J. (1994-10)
The development of a real business cycle model in which government fiscal variables such as tax rates and public expenditures are endogenous. The authors characterize the "optimal" behavior of these policy variables over the business cycle and relate this behavior to movements in private-sector variables like output, consumption, labor hours, and investment.
Economic Review , Volume 30 , Issue Q IV , Pages 2-14

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Can the Phillips curve help forecast inflation?
Lansing, Kevin J. (2002)
FRBSF Economic Letter

Working Paper
Explaining the Boom-Bust Cycle in the U.S. Housing Market: A Reverse-Engineering Approach
Gelain, Paolo; Lansing, Kevin J.; Natvik, Gisele J. (2015-01)
We use a simple quantitative asset pricing model to ?reverse-engineer? the sequences of stochastic shocks to housing demand and lending standards that are needed to exactly replicate the boom-bust patterns in U.S. household real estate value and mortgage debt over the period 1995 to 2012. Conditional on the observed paths for U.S. disposable income growth and the mortgage interest rate, we consider four different specifications of the model that vary according to the way that household expectations are formed (rational versus moving average forecast rules) and the maturity of the mortgage ...
Working Paper Series , Paper 2015-2

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R-star, Uncertainty, and Monetary Policy
Lansing, Kevin J. (2017)
Investors? demand for safe assets tends to increase when there?s more uncertainty, as in recessions. Consistent with this idea, short-term movements in the natural rate of interest, or r-star, are negatively correlated with an index of macroeconomic uncertainty. This relationship may be relevant for assessing monetary policy. An estimated policy rule that incorporates both r-star and the uncertainty index can largely reproduce the path of the federal funds rate since 1988, except during periods when policy was constrained by the zero lower bound.
FRBSF Economic Letter

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Asset price bubbles
Lansing, Kevin J. (2007)
Economists use the term "bubble" to describe an asset price that has risen above the level justified by economic fundamentals, as measured by the discounted stream of expected future cash flows that will accrue to the owner of the asset. The dramatic rise in U.S. stock prices during the late 1990s, followed similarly by U.S. house prices during the early 2000s, are episodes that have both been described as "bubbles." This Economic Letter describes some research that attempts to account for the behavior of asset price bubbles.
FRBSF Economic Letter

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Assessing the Recent Behavior of Inflation
Lansing, Kevin J. (2015)
Inflation has remained below the FOMC?s long-run target of 2% for more than three years. But this sustained undershooting does not yet signal a statistically significant departure from the target once the volatility of monthly inflation rates is taken into account. Furthermore, the empirical Phillips curve relationship that links inflation to the size of production or employment gaps has been roughly stable since the early 1990s. Hence, continued improvements in production and employment relative to their long-run trends would be expected to put upward pressure on inflation.
FRBSF Economic Letter

Working Paper
Some new variance bounds for asset prices: a comment
Lansing, Kevin J. (2010)
Engel (2005) derives a theoretical variance inequality involving the change in equilibrium stock prices Var ( p) : Assuming that stock prices are "cum-dividend" and that investors are risk neutral, he shows that Var ( p) must be greater than or equal to the variance of the "perfect foresight" (or "ex post rational") price change Var ( p*) ; where p* is computed from the discounted stream of subsequent realized dividends. This paper expands the analysis to consider "ex-divdend" prices and risk aversion in a standard Lucas-type asset pricing model. I show that the direction of the ...
Working Paper Series , Paper 2010-29

Journal Article
Output and inflation: a 100-year perspective
Thalhammer, Jeffrey; Lansing, Kevin J. (1999)
FRBSF Economic Letter

Working Paper
Dynamic optimal fiscal and monetary policy in a business cycle model with income redistribution
Lansing, Kevin J. (1993)
An estimation of an optimal program of distortionary taxes, money growth, and borrowing to finance a stream of expenditures based on a real business cycle model in which distribution issues between the rich and poor play a fundamental role in policy decisions.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9308

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Federal Reserve credibility and inflation scares
Lansing, Kevin J.; Huh, Chan Guk (1998)
We develop a simple, quantitative model of the U.S. economy to demonstrate how an "inflation scare " may occur when the Federal Reserve lacks full credibility. In particular, we show that the long-term nominal interest rate may undergo a sudden increase if an adverse movement in the inflation rate triggers a deterioration in the public's beliefs about the Federal Reserve's commitment to maintaining low inflation in the future. We find that simulations from our model capture some observed patterns of U.S. interest rates in the 1980s.
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