What is mechanism design? Give at least two examples.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2
Suppose the equilibrium real federal funds rate is 3 percent, the target rate of inflation is 3 percent, the current inflation rate is 1 percent, and real GDP is 8 percent below potential real GDP.
If the weights for the inflation gap and the output gap are both 1/2, then according to the Taylor rule the federal funds target rate equals
A) -3 percent. B) -1 percent. C) 3.5 percent. D) 7 percent.