The Federal Reserve Will Use an Inflation Rate Target of 2

question 362

Multiple Choice

The Federal Reserve will use an inflation rate target of 2 percent to

• A) compensate for upward measurement bias in how the inflation rate is calculated.
• B) allow for downward wage flexibility.
• C) avoid the zero lower bound problem.
• D) All of these choices are correct.

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