We propose a simple, model-free way to measure price selection and its impact on inflation. Price selection exists when prices that change in response to aggregate shocks are not representative of the overall population of prices. Due to selection, increases (decreases) in inflation can be...

We explore the impact of low and negative monetary policy rates in core world economies on bank lending in four small open economies-Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic and Norway- using confidential bank-level data. Our results show that the impact on lending in these small open economies depends...

We compare the performance of alternative monetary policy frameworks (inflation targeting, average inflation targeting, price level targeting and nominal GDP level targeting) in a tractable HANK model where incomplete financial markets and idiosyncratic earnings risk introduce precautionary...