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minneapolisfed.org - 1/6/2009

Kenneth Rogoff Interview - The Region - Publications & Papers | The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

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Fresh out of graduate school, Kenneth Rogoff went to work at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Within months, he had overturned conventional wisdom about the forecasting power of exchange rate models. "We find," he wrote with Richard Meese, "that a random walk model would have ...

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