microeconomic In the 1970s in the United States, the inflation
microeconomicIn the 1970s in the United States, the inflation rate and the natural rate of unemployment both rose. Let’s use this model of time inconsistency to examine this phenomenon. Assume that policy is discretionary. a. In the model as developed so far, what hap- pens to the infl ation rate when the natural rate of unemployment rises? b. Let’s now change the model slightly by sup-posing that the Fed’s loss function is quadratic in both infl ation and unemployment. That is, Follow steps similar to those in the text to solve for the infl ation rate under discretionary policy. c. Now what happens to the infl ation rate when the natural rate of unemployment rises? d. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter appointed the conservative central banker Paul Volcker to head the Federal Reserve. According to this model, what should have happened to inflation and unemployment? L(u, ) = u2 + 2