Rather than the money market variables, the Fried man School would have the Federal Reserve focus its pri mary attention on one or more of the broad monetary aggregates to try to keep it (or them) growing at a rate consistent with over‐all pol icy goals.
But from statements by Federal Reserve officials— for example, Mr. Maisel— it seems clear that the first aim of policy actions is to produce a defined set of rela tionships among the money market variables, on the as sumption that this, in time, will produce desired changes in the broader monetary ag gregates, and hence, eventu ally, in "real" economic ac tivity — production, jobs and incomes.
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The dominant neo-Keynesian (see economics: Keynesian economics) and monetarist schools of economics make predictions of the macroscopic behaviour of economies (see macroeconomics) based the interrelationship of a few variables; money supply, rate of inflation, and rate of unemployment jointly determine the rate of economic growth.
When considering a job, people optimize for all sorts of variables: money, time, colleagues, interesting work.
The spline consisted of a main effect "money", a dummy variable "receiving dummy" and an interaction variable "money*receiving dummy".
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