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Peter N. Ireland

Peter Ireland was an economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from 1991 to 1996. He is currently a professor of economics at Boston College.

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Economic Quarterly, Winter 1996

Long-Term Interest Rates and Inflation: A Fisherian Approach

Peter N. Ireland

Economic Quarterly, Winter 1995

Using the Permanent Income Hypothesis for Forecasting

Peter N. Ireland

Economic Quarterly, Winter 1994

Two Perspectives on Growth and Taxes

Peter N. Ireland

Economic Quarterly, Winter 1993

Price Stability Under Long-Run Monetary Targeting

Peter N. Ireland

Economic Review, Nov/Dec, 1992

Forecasting the Effects of Reduced Defense Spending

Peter N. Ireland and Christopher Otrok

Economic Review, Nov/Dec, 1991

Financial Evolution and the Long-Run Behavior of Velocity

Peter N. Ireland
Working Papers

February 1996, No. 96-1

Stopping Inflations, Big and Small

Peter N. Ireland

September 1995, No. 95-4

Customer Flows, Countercyclical Markups, and the Persistent Effects of Monetary Shocks

Peter N. Ireland

January 1995, No. 95-1

Optimal Disinflationary Paths

Peter N. Ireland

June 1994, No. 94-7

Money and the Gain from Enduring Relationships in the Turnpike Model

Peter N. Ireland

March 1994, No. 94-4

The Welfare Cost of Inflation in General Equilibrium

Michael Dotsey and Peter N. Ireland

February 1993, No. 93-1

Liquidity Effects and Transactions Technologies

Michael Dotsey and Peter N. Ireland

December 1992, No. 92-3

Endogenous Financial Innovation and the Demand for Money

Peter N. Ireland

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