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Adaptive Learning in Macroeconomics

The page was last updated in August 2009, when the ESRC project “Learning and Macroeconomic Policy” was completed.

 

Current research on adaptive learning and applications

 

This page lists completed papers and ongoing research on adaptive learning (post 2001), with corresponding links whenever available. The papers are organised first by whether they are published or are mimeos and then by year. For papers before 2001, see “Learning and Expectations in Macroeconomics”, by G. Evans and S. Honkapohja.

 

Published Papers

2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | Forthcoming

 

Unpublished Manuscripts

2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

 

 

Published Papers

 

2001

Adam, K., "Learning While Searching for the Best Alternative", Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 101, 252-280, 2001

Bullard, J. and Duffy, J., "Learning and Excess Volatility", Macroeconomic Dynamics 5, 303-325, 2001

Evans, G., "Expectations in Macroeconomics: Adaptive vs. Eductive Learning", Revue Economique 52, No. 3, 573-582, 2001

Evans, G., Honkapohja, S., and Marimon, R., "Convergence in Monetary Inflation Models with Heterogeneous Learning Rules", Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2001

 

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2002

Branch, W., "Local convergence properties of a cobweb model with rationally heterogeneous expectations", Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 27, 63–85, 2002

Bullard, J. and Mitra, K., "Learning About Monetary Policy Rules", Journal of Monetary Economics 49, 1105-1129, 2002

Cho, I., Williams, N., and  Sargent, T.,"Escaping Nash Inflation", Review of Economic Studies 69, 1-40, 2002

 

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2003

Adam, K., "Learning and Equilibrium Selection in a Monetary Overlapping Generations Model with Sticky Prices", Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 70(4), 887-908, 2003"

Evans, G. and Guesnerie, R., "Coordination on Saddle Path Solutions: the Eductive Viewpoint -- Linear Univariate Models", Macroeconomic Dynamics 7, 42-62, 2003

Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., "Adaptive Learning and Monetary Policy Design", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 35, 1045-1072, 2003

Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., "Expectations and the Stability Problem for Optimal Monetary Policy", Review of Economic Studies 70, 807-824, 2003

Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., "Friedman's Money Supply Rule vs. Optimal Interest Rate Policy", Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50, 550-566, 2003

Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., "Expectational Stability of Stationary Sunspot Equilibria in a Forward-looking Model", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 28, 171-181, 2003

Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., "Existence of Adaptively Stable Sunspot Equilibria near an Indeterminate Steady State", Journal of Economic Theory 111, 125-134, 2003

Georges, C., “Adjustment costs, learning, and indeterminacy”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 28, 101-116, 2003

Giannitsarou, C., "Heterogeneous Learning", Review of Economic Dynamics, 6, pp. 885-906, 2003

Honkapohja, S. and Mitra, K, "Learning with Bounded Memory in Stochastic Models", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 27(8), pp. 1437-1457, 2003

Lettau, M., and VanZandt, T., "Robustness of Adaptive Expectations as an Equilibrium Selection Device", Macroeconomic Dynamics 7, 89-118, 2003

Marcet, A. and Nicolini, J. P., "Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning", American Economic Review, 93(5), pp. 1476-1498, 2003

McCallum, B., "Multiple-Solution Indeterminacies in Monetary Policy Analysis", Journal of Monetary Economics 50, 1153-1175, 2003

McCallum, B., "Is the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level Learnable?", Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50, 634-649, 2003

McGough, B., "Statistical Learning with Time-Varying Parameters", Macroeconomic Dynamics, Feb. 2003

Mitra, K., “Desirability of Nominal GDP Targeting Under Adaptive Learning”, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 35, 197-220, 2003

 

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2004

Branch, W., "The Theory of Rationally Heterogeneous Expectations: Evidence From Survey Data on Inflation Expectations", The Economic Journal 114, 592–621, 2004.

Branch, W. and McGough, B., "Multiple Equilibria in Heterogeneous Expectations Models", Contributions to Macroeconomics, BE-Press, 2004, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Article 12.

Honkapohja, S. and Mitra, K., "Are non-fundamental equilibria learnable in models of monetary policy?", Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 51, Issue 8, November 2004, Pages 1743-1770.

Kasa, K., “Learning, Large Deviations, and Recurrent Currency Crises”, International Economic Review 45, 141-173, 2004.

McCallum, B., "Consistent Expectations, Rational Expectations, Multiple-Solution Indeterminacies, and Least-Squares Learnability," in Money Matters: Essays in Honour of Alan Walters, ed. By Patrick Minford. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004, pp. 11-34.

 

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2005

Adam, K., "Learning to Forecast and Cyclical Behavior of Output and Inflation", Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 9(1), 1-27, 2005

Branch, W. and McGough, B., "Consistent Expectations and Misspecification in Stochastic Non-linear Economies", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29, p. 659 – 676, 2005

Bullard, J. and Cho, I., "Escapist Policy Rules", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29, Pages 1841-1865

Bullard, J. and Eusepi, S., "Did the Great Inflation Occur Despite Policymaker Commitment to a Taylor Rule?”, Review of Economic Dynamics 8, 324-359, 2005

Evans, G. and Guesnerie, R., "Coordination on Saddle-Path Solutions: the Eductive Viewpoint - Linear Multivariate Models", Journal of Economic Theory 124, pp. 202-229

Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., "Policy Interaction, Expectations and the Liquidity Trap", Review of Economic Dynamics 8, 303-323, 2005

Evans, G. and McGough, B., "Monetary Policy, Indeterminacy and Learning", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29, 1809-1840, 2005

Evans, G. and McGough, B., "Indeterminacy and the Stability Puzzle in Non-Convex Economies", Contributions to Macroeconomics, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Article 8, 2005

Evans, G. and McGough, B., "Stable Sunspot Solutions in Models with Predetermined Variables", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29, 601-625, 2005

Evans, G. and McGough, B., "Monetary Policy and Stable Indeterminacy with Inertia", Economics Letters 87, 1-7, 2005

Giannitsarou, C., "E-stability Does Not Imply Learnability", Macroeconomic Dynamics 9, 276-287, 2005

Guse,E., "Stability Properties for Learning with Heterogeneous Expectations and Multiple Equilibria", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29, 1623-1642, 2005.

Honkapohja, S. and Mitra, K., "Performance of monetary policy with internal central bank forecasting", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 29, Issue 4, April 2005, Pages 627-658

Honkapohja, S. and Mitra, K., "Performance of inflation targeting based on constant interest rate projections", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 29, Issue 11, November 2005, Pages 1867-1892

Orphanides, A. and Williams, J., "The Decline of Activist Stabilization Policy: Natural Rate Misperceptions, Learning, and Expectations", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, November 2005, 1927-1950

Orphanides, A. and Williams, J., "Inflation Scares and Monetary Policy", Review of Economic Dynamics, April 2005, 498-527

Orphanides, A. and Williams, J., "Imperfect Knowledge, Inflation Expectations, and Monetary Policy", in Ben S. Bernanke and Michael Woodford (ed.) The Inflation-Targeting Debate, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 201-234

Preston, B., "Learning About Monetary Policy Rules When Long-Horizon Expectations Matter", International Journal of Central Banking, 1, 2005

Sargent, T., Williams, N., "Impacts of Priors on Convergence and Escape from Nash Inflation", Review of Economic Dynamics 8, 360-391, 2005

Williams, J., "Robust Estimation and Monetary Policy with Unobserved Structural Change", in Jon Faust, Athanasios Orphanides, and David Reifschneider (ed.) Models and Monetary Policy: Research in the Tradition of Dale Henderson, Richard Porter, and Peter Tinsley, Washington, DC: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

 

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2006

Adam, K., Evans, G., and Honkapohja, S., "Are Hyperinflation Paths Learnable?", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 30, 2725-2748

Aoki, K. and Nikolov, K., “Rule-Based Monetary Policy under Central Bank Learning”, in Richard

Clarida, Jeffrey Frankel and Francesco Giavazzi,  Editors,  International Seminar on Macroeconomics, NBER, 2006

Branch, W., "Restricted Perceptions Equilibria and Learning in Macroeconomics", in Post Walrasian Macroeconomics: Beyond the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model, ed. David Colander, Cambridge University Press.

Branch, W. and Evans, G., "Intrinsic Heterogeneity in Expectation Formation", Journal of Economic Theory 127, pp. 264-295, 2006

Branch, W. and Evans, G., "A Simple Recursive Forecasting Model", Economic Letters 91, pp. 158-166, 2006

Evans, G., Honkapohja, S., “Monetary Policy, Expectations and Commitment”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 108, 15-38, 2006

Evans, G. and Ramey, G., "Adaptive Expectations, Underparameterization and the Lucas Critique", Journal of Monetary Economics 53, pp. 249-264, 2006

Giannitsarou, C., "Supply-Side Reforms and Learning Dynamics", Journal of Monetary Economics 53, 231 – 306, 2006

Honkapohja, S. and Mitra, K., "Learning Stability in Economies with Heterogenous Agents", Review of Economic Dynamics 9, 284-309, 2006

Honkapohja, S., Mitra, K., Learning of Steady States in Nonlinear Models When Shocks Follow a Markov Chain, in Schultz, C. and K. Vind (eds.): "Institutions, Equilibria and Efficiency: Essays in Honor of Birgit Grodal", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, 161-172

McGough, B., "Shocking Escapes", Economic Journal 116, 507-528.

Orphanides, A. and Williams, J., "Monetary Policy with Imperfect Knowledge", Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming, 2006

Orphanides, A. and Williams, J., "Monetary Policy with Imperfect Knowledge", Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, April/May 2006

Waters, G., "Dangers of Commitment:  Monetary Policy with Adaptive Learning", Journal of Economics and Finance 30, 93-104, 2006

Williams, J., “Monetary Policy in a Low Inflation Economy with Learning,” in Monetary Policy in an Environment of Low Inflation; Proceedings of the Bank of Korea International Conference 2006, The Bank of Korea, 199-228, 2006.

 

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2007

Adam, K. “Experimental Evidence on the Persistence of Output and Inflation”, The Economic Journal 117, 603-636.

Berardi, M. “ Heterogeneity and misspecifications in learning”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 3203-3227 .

Berardi, M. and Duffy, J. “The value of central bank transparency when agents are learning”, European Journal of Political Economy 23, 9-29.

Branch, W., "Sticky Information and Model Uncertainty in Survey Data on Inflation Expectations", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 245-276.

Branch, W. and Evans, G., "Model Uncertainty and Endogenous Volatility", Review of Economic Dynamics 10, 207-237

Branch, W. and McGough, B., "Replicator Dynamics in a Cobweb Model with Rationally Heterogeneous Expectations", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 65, 224-244

Bullard, J., and Mitra, K., "Determinacy, Learnability, and Monetary Policy Inertia", Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 39, 1177-1212

Carceles-Poveda, E. and Giannitsarou, C., "Adaptive Learning in Practice", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 2659-2697.

Carceles-Poveda, E. and Giannitsarou, C., "Asset Pricing with Adaptive Learning", Review of Economic Dynamics 11, 629-651

Duffy, J and Xiao, W., "Instability of Sunspot Equilibria in Real Business Cycle Models Under Adaptive Learning", Journal of Monetary Economics 54, 879-903

Edge, R., T. Laubach, and J. Williams, “Learning and Shifts in Long-Run Productivity Growth", Journal of Monetary Economics 54, 2421-2438

Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., "Policy Interaction, Learning and the Fiscal Theory of Prices", Macroeconomic Dynamics 11, 665-690.

Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., "The E-Correspondence Principle", Economica 74, 33-50.

Evans, G., Honkapohja, S. and Marimon, R., "Stable Sunspot Equilibria in a Cash-in-Advance Economy", The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 2007, vol.7, Iss.1 (Advances), Article 3.

Evans, G. and McGough, B., “Optimal Constrained Interest-rate Rules", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 39, 1335-1356

Ferrero, G., "Monetary Policy, Learning and the Speed of Convergence", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 3006-3041.

Georges, C., “Bounded memory, overparameterized forecast rules, and instability”, Economics Letters 98, 129-135

Granato, J., Guse, E., and Wong, S., “Learning from the Expectations of Others”, Macroeconomic Dynamics 12, 345-377

Guse, E., "Learning in a Misspecified Multivariate Self-referential Linear Stochastic Model", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 32 ,1517-1542

Honkapohja, S. and Turunen-Red, A., “Increasing Returns, Learning and Beneficial Tax Competition”, Journal of Public Economic Theory 9, 927-958.

Orphanides, A. and Williams, J., "Inflation Targeting under Imperfect Knowledge", in Frederic Mishkin and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel (ed.) Monetary Policy under Inflation Targeting, Central Bank of Chile.

Orphanides, A. and Williams, J., "Robust Monetary Policy with Imperfect Knowledge", Journal of Monetary Economics 54 ,1406-1435

Parke, W. and Waters, G., "An Evolutionary Game Theory Explanation of ARCH Effects", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 2234-2262.

Preston, B., "Adaptive Learning, Forecast-based Instrument Rules and Monetary Policy”, Journal of Monetary Economics 53, 507-535.

Waters, G., "Regime Changes, Learning and Monetary Policy", Journal of Macroeconomics 29, 255-282.

 

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2008

Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., “Learning in Macroeconomics”, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.

Rudebusch, G. and J. Williams, “Revealing the Secrets of the Temple: The Value of Publishing Central Bank Interest Rate Projections,”, in John Y. Campbell (ed.) Asset Prices and Monetary Policy, University of Chicago Press, 2008.

 

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2009

Nunes, R., "Learning the Inflation Target", Macroeconomic Dynamics 13, 167-188.

 

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Forthcoming

 

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Unpublished manuscripts

 

2002

Cho, I. and Kasa, K., "Learning Dynamics and Endogenous Currency Crises", November 2002

Evans, G. and McGough, B., "Stable Noisy K-State Markov Sunspots", July, 2002

McCallum, B., "The Unique Minimum State Variable RE Solution is E-Stable in All Well Formulated Linear Models", November 2002

McGough, B., "A Numerical Approach to Learning with Time-Varying Parameters", April, 2002

 

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2003

Berardi, M., “Escape dynamics and policy specification”, 2003

Evans, G., Honkapohja, S. and Mitra, K., "Notes on Agents’ Behavioral Rules Under Adaptive Learning and Recent Studies of Monetary Policy", March 2003

Williams, N., "Adaptive Learning and Business Cycles", January 2003

 

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2004

Berardi, M., “Expectations, learning and policy rule”, 2004

Bullard, J. and Duffy, J., "Learning and Structural Change in Macroeconomic Data", August 2004

Milani, F., "Expectations, Learning and Macroeconomic Persistence", Nov 2004

Preston, B., "Adaptive Learning and the Use of Forecasts in Monetary Policy", 2004

Williams, N., "Escape Dynamics in Learning Models", June 2004

 

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2005

Berardi, M. “Monetary policy with heterogeneous and misspecified expectations”, 2005

Bullard, J., Evans, G. and Honkapohja, S., "Near-Rational Exuberance", September 2005

Cho, I. and Kasa, K., "Learning and Model Validation", Sept. 2005

Cho, I. and Kasa, K., "Model Validation Dynamics and Endogenous Currency Crises", October 2005

Duffy, J. and Xiao, W., "The Value of Interest Rate Stabilization Policies When Agents are Learning," November 2005

Evans, G., Honkapohja, S. and Williams, N., "Generalized Stochastic Gradient Learning", September 2005

McCulloch, H., "The Kalman Foundations of Adaptive Least Squares", August 2005

Milani, F., "Adaptive Learning and Inflation Persistence", Feb 2005

Milani, F., "Learning, Monetary Policy Rules, and Macroeconomic Stability", April 2005

Waters, G., "Learning, Commitment and Monetary Policy:  the case for partial commitment", September 2005

 

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2006

Branch, W., Carlson, J., Evans, G. and McGough, B., "Adaptive Learning, Endogenous Inattention and Changes in Monetary Policy," June 2006.

Chakraborty, A. and Evans, G., "Can Perpetual Learning explain the Forward Premium Puzzle?", June 2006.

Davies, R., and Shea, P., “Adaptive Learning with a Unit Root: An Application to the Current Account”, July 2006

Dennis, R., and Ravenna, F., “Learning and Optimal Monetary Policy”, October 2006

Evans, G. and McGough, B., "Implementing Optimal Monetary Policy in New Keynesian Models with Inertia", June 2006

Guse, E., "Heterogeneous Expectations, Adaptive Learning, and Evolutionary Dynamics”, November 2006

McCulloch, H., “Learning About Volatility:  The Local Scale Model with Homoskedastic Innovations, with Application to Stock Returns", October 2006

Parke, W. and Waters, G., "An Evolutionary Route to Rational Expectations", March 2006

Shea, P., “Short-Sighted Managers and Self-Fulfilling Business Cycles”, October 2006

Shea, P., “Real-Time Rational Expectations, and Indeterminacy”, August 2006

Shea, P., “An Empirical Search for Learnable Sunspots”, October 2006

Shea, P., “Multiple, Multiple Equilibria and Consistent Conjectures”, September 2006

Waters, G., "Chaos in the Cobweb Model with a New Learning Dynamic", December 2006

 

2007

Bullard, J., Evans, G., and Honkapohja, S., “A Model of Near-Rational Exuberance”, February 2007

Bullard, J., Evans, G., and Honkapohja, S., “Monetary Policy, Judgment and Near-Rational Exuberance”, February 2007.

Chakraborty, A., Learning, the Forward Premium Puzzle and Market Efficiency, January 2007.

Duffy, J. and Xiao, W. "Investment and Monetary Policy: Learning and Determinacy of Equilibrium", July 2007.

Evans, G., Guse, E., and Honkapohja, S., Liquidity Traps, Learning and Stagnation”, June 2007.

Evans, G., Honkapohja, S., and Mitra, K., “Anticipated Fiscal Policy and Adaptive Learning”, March 2007.

McKibbin, W. J. and  Tan, K. Y. “Learning and International Transmission of Shocks”, January 2007

Muto, I.Productivity Growth, Transparency, and Monetary Policy”, June 2007.

 

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2008

Muto, I. “Monetary Policy and Learning from the Central Bank's Forecast”, January 2008