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A new policy rule for the post-crisis era

Most monetary policy rules, many of which suggest that interest rates should already have risen, arelargely useless in the post-crisis world. If we make adjustments to allow for a lower neutral rate and thepossibility that there is more labour market slack than the unemployment rate suggests, however, theresulting post-crisis rule suggests that interest rates should rise early in the first quarter of next year.

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