Empirical evidence documents substantial persistence in the adjustment process to nominal shocks. Existing open-economy models have failed either to generate interesting dynamics or found that the mechanisms are quantitatively weak. We consider the propagation of nominal shocks in a fully...

Central banks have become increasingly worried about systemic risks to the financial market and infrastructure stemming from payment systems. Failure to settle by a participant in a netting system can potentially jeopardize the settlement of other participants. The fear of a systemic crisis has...

We analyze the transmission of monetary shocks in a new openeconomy macroeconomics model with one-period nominal contracts and imperfect information. Shocks may have transitory and persistent components, which only through accumulation of information over time becomes known. Responses to shocks...