• Does the Barro-Gordon Model Explain the Behavior of US Inflation? a Reexamination of the Empirical Evidence 

    Ruge-Murcia, Francisco (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2002)
    This paper tests the predictions of the Barro-Gordon model using US data on inflation and unemployment. To that end, it constructs a general game-theoretical model with asymmetric preferences that nests the Barro-Gordon model and a version of Cukierman’s ...
  • A Prudent Central Banker 

    Ruge-Murcia, Francisco (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)
    This paper studies monetary policy in an economy where the central banker's preferences are asymmetric around optimal inflation. In particular, positive deviations from the optimum can be weighted more, or less, severely than negative deviations in the ...