The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the level of inflation matters for the persistence of output growth when shocks to output have asymmetric effects. The idea that inflation could have such threshold effects is worth investigating because some authors have suggested that a low...

Is a fair degree of equality among economic agents with respect to income and wealth compatible with an optimal level of economic growth - or does initiatives promoting equality restrain growth, or in the opposite, does initiatives promoting growth restrain equality? These are questions that...

There are two competing theories of balance of payments: the Keynesian and the monetary theories. Each of the two approaches provides distinct explanations on how the determinants of the balance of payments could lead to equilibrium and disequilibrium of the balance of payments account and both...

The recent literature on monetary policy has questioned the use of linear Phillips curves and the assumption of a constant NAIRU. In this paper we explore monetary policy considering different shapes of the Phillips curve and an endogenous NAIRU. The NAIRU is, as recent papers suggest, made...