John B. Taylor

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He taught at Columbia University from 1973 to 1980 and the Woodrow Wilson School and Economics Department of Princeton University from 1980 to 1984 before returning to Stanford. He has received several teaching prizes and teaches Stanford's introductory economics course as well as PhD courses in monetary economics.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In research published in 1979 and 1980 he developed a model of price and wage setting—called the staggered contract model—which served as an underpinning of a new class of empirical models with rational expectations and sticky prices—sometimes called new Keynesian models.<ref>Template:Cite journal

Reprinted in Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In a 1993 paper he proposed the Taylor rule,<ref name="Discretion">Template:Cite journal Pdf.</ref> intended as a recommendation about how nominal interest rates should be determined, which then became a rough summary of how central banks actually do set them. He has been active in public policy, serving as the Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the first term of the George W. Bush administration. His book Global Financial Warriors chronicles this period.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors during the George H. W. Bush administration and Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisors during the Ford and Carter administrations.

In 2012 he was included in the 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine. Thomson Reuters lists Taylor among the "citation laureates" who are likely future winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 2018 to 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and educationEdit

Born in Yonkers, New York, Taylor graduated from Shady Side Academy<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and earned his AB in economics from Princeton University in 1968 after completing a senior thesis titled "Fiscal and Monetary Stabilization Policies in a Model of Cyclical Growth".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He then earned his PhD in economics from Stanford University in 1973.

Academic contributionsEdit

Taylor's research—including the staggered contract model, the Taylor rule, and the construction of a policy tradeoff (Taylor) curve<ref>Template:Cite journal Pdf.

Reprinted in Template:Citation</ref> employing empirical rational expectations models<ref name="operation">Template:Cite book</ref>—has had a major impact on economic theory and policy.<ref>Ben Bernanke refers to the “three concepts named after John that are central to understanding our macroeconomic experience of the past three decades—the Taylor curve, the Taylor rule, and the Taylor principle.” in “Opening Remarks,” Conference on John Taylor’s Contributions to Monetary Theory and Policy</ref> Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that Taylor's “influence on monetary theory and policy has been profound,”<ref>Template:Cite book Remarks at the Conference on John Taylor's Contributions to Monetary Theory and Policy.</ref> and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has noted that Taylor's work “has affected the way policymakers and economists analyze the economy and approach monetary policy."<ref>Template:Cite book Remarks at the Conference on John Taylor's Contributions to Monetary Theory and Policy.</ref>

Taylor contributed to the development of mathematical methods for solving macroeconomic models under the assumption of rational expectations, including in a 1975 Journal of Political Economy paper, in which he showed how gradual learning could be incorporated in models with rational expectations;<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> a 1979 Econometrica paper in which he presented one of the first econometric models with overlapping price setting and rational expectations,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> which he later expanded into a large multicountry model in a 1993 book Macroeconomic Policy in a World Economy,<ref name="operation" /> and a 1983 Econometrica paper,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> in which he developed with Ray Fair the first algorithm to solve large-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models which became part of popular solution programs such as Dynare and EViews.<ref>Template:Citation and “Eviews Users Guide II.”</ref>

In 1977, Taylor and Edmund Phelps, simultaneously with Stanley Fischer, showed that monetary policy is useful for stabilizing the economy if prices or wages are sticky, even when all workers and firms have rational expectations.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> This demonstrated that some of the earlier insights of Keynesian economics remained true under rational expectations. This was important because Thomas Sargent and Neil Wallace had argued that rational expectations would make macroeconomic policy useless for stabilization;<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> the results of Taylor, Phelps, and Fischer showed that Sargent and Wallace's crucial assumption was not rational expectations, but perfectly flexible prices.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> These research projects together could considerably deepen our understanding of the limits of the policy-ineffectiveness proposition.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Taylor then developed the staggered contract model of overlapping wage and price setting, which became one of the building blocks of the New Keynesian macroeconomics that rebuilt much of the traditional macromodel on rational expectations microfoundations.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Taylor's research on monetary policy rules traces back to his undergraduate studies at Princeton.<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He went on in the 1970s and 1980s to explore what types of monetary policy rules would most effectively reduce the social costs of inflation and business cycle fluctuations: should central banks try to control the money supply, the price level, or the interest rate; and should these instruments react to changes in output, unemployment, asset prices, or inflation rates? He showed<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> that there was a tradeoff—later called the Taylor curve<ref>Template:Cite book Remarks at the meeting of the Eastern Economic Association.</ref>—between the volatility of inflation and that of output. Taylor's 1993 paper in the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy proposed that a simple and effective central bank policy would manipulate short-term interest rates, raising rates to cool the economy whenever inflation or output growth becomes excessive, and lowering rates when either one falls too low.<ref name="Discretion" /> Taylor's interest rate equation has come to be known as the Taylor rule, and it is now widely accepted as an effective formula for monetary decision making.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

A key stipulation of the Taylor rule, sometimes called the Taylor principle,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> is that the nominal interest rate should increase by more than one percentage point for each one-percent rise in inflation. Some empirical estimates indicate that many central banks today act approximately as the Taylor rule prescribes, but violated the Taylor principle during the inflationary spiral of the 1970s.<ref>Template:Cite journal Pdf.</ref>

Recent researchEdit

Taylor's recent research has been on the financial crisis that began in 2007 and the world economic recession. He finds that the crisis was primarily caused by flawed macroeconomic policies from the U.S. government and other governments. Particularly, he focuses on the Federal Reserve which, under Alan Greenspan, a personal friend of Taylor, created "monetary excesses" in which interest rates were kept too low for too long, which then directly led to the housing boom in his opinion.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> He also believes that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae spurred on the boom and that the crisis was misdiagnosed as a liquidity rather than a credit risk problem.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> He wrote that, "government actions and interventions, not any inherent failure or instability of the private economy, caused, prolonged, and worsen the crisis."<ref>Template:Cite news Pdf.</ref>

Taylor's research has also examined the impact of fiscal policy in the recent recession. In November 2008, writing for The Wall Street Journal opinion section, he recommended four measures to fight the economic downturn: (a) permanently keeping all income tax rates the same, (b) permanently creating a worker's tax credit equal to 6.2 percent of wages up to $8,000, (c) incorporating "automatic stabilizers" as part of overall fiscal plans, and (d) enacting a short-term stimulus plan that also meets long-term objectives against waste and inefficiency. He stated that merely temporary tax cuts would not serve as a good policy tool.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His research<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> with John Cogan, Tobias Cwik, and Volcker Wieland showed that the multiplier is much smaller in new Keynesian than in old Keynesian models, a result that was confirmed by researchers at central banks.<ref>Template:Cite journal Pdf. Template:Webarchive</ref> He evaluated the 2008 and 2009 stimulus packages and argued that they were not effective in stimulating the economy.<ref>Template:Cite journal Pdf.</ref>

In a June 2011 interview on Bloomberg Television, Taylor stressed the importance of long term fiscal reform that sets the U.S. federal budget on a path towards being balanced. He cautioned that the Fed should move away from quantitative easing measures and keep to a more static, stable monetary policy. He also criticized fellow economist Paul Krugman's advocacy of additional stimulus programs from Congress, which Taylor said will not help in the long run.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In his 2012 book First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America’s Prosperity, he endeavors to explain why these reforms are part of a broader set of principles of economic freedom.

Selected publicationsEdit

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Taylor, John B. (1986), 'New econometric approaches to stabilization policy in stochastic models of macroeconomic fluctuations'. Ch. 34 of Handbook of Econometrics, vol. 3, Z. Griliches and M.D. Intriligator, eds. Elsevier Science Publishers.
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