Lukas Heim evaluates the performance of a price-level targeting rule compared to that of a standard inflation targeting rule. The comparison is based on a medium-scale DSGE model which has been estimated based on state-of-the-art Bayesian methods. The model for the Swiss economy is an expanded...

Central Bank Policy Mix: Key Concepts and Indonesia's Experience -- Central Bank Policy Mix: Issues, Challenges, and Policy Responses -- Monetary Policy -- Exchange Rate Policy and Regimes -- Managing Capital Flows -- Financial Stability and Systemic Risk -- Macroprudential Policies and...

1. The Phillips Curve: what went wrong -- 2. An alternative theory of consumption -- 3. The post-crisis Phillips Curve: cumulative wage gap vs. inflation gap -- 4. Empirical evidence -- 5. Policy implications.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Trends in Growth since the GFC -- Chapter 3. Credit, Employment and the Current Account -- Chapter 4. Capital Formation and Foreign Investment -- Chapter 5. Inflation and Monetary Developments -- Chapter 6. Policy and Analyses Chapter -- 7. Reflexive, not...

Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...

This open access book gives a concise introduction to the practical implementation of monetary policy by modern central banks. It describes the conventional instruments used in advanced economies and the unconventional instruments that have been widely adopted since the financial crisis of...

1:-On the History of Monetary Policy -- 2.:-An Alternative Model: Stabilizing the Long-Term Interest Rate -- 3:-New Instruments for Monetary Policy -- 4:-Paths to the Fixed-Rate Model – How, Where, and When? -- 5:-Some Supplements -- 6:-On the Governance Structure of Fully Independent Central...

Chapter 1. From Pandemics to the Unconventional Monetary Policy in EMs: The Case of Croatia -- Chapter 2. Financial Cycle Convergence: Evidence on Financial Cycles Synchronisation in the European Union and the European Economic and Monetary Union -- Chapter 3. Fiscal Response to the COVID-19...

The extensive monetary policy of central banks during the Great Recession has re-newed the interest in the relation between (possibly) non-neutral money and wealth and income inequality. In this work, a dynamic general equilibrium model approach is used to study the effects of an inflation rate...