How should policy be optimally designed when a monetary authority faces a private sector that is somewhat skeptical about policy announcements and which interprets economic data as providing evidence about the monetary authority's preferences or its ability to carry through on policy plans? To...

The model's flexibility also allows us to parameterize it in ways that generate behavior consistent with some recent studies in the literature, namely Midrigan (2006) and Golosov and Lucas (2008). We can also use simple versions of the model to understand the relationships between price...

When we examine a composite setting where the firm-side sluggish price adjustment central throughout New Keynesian monetary analysis is allowed to interact with the rich money demand mechanism implied by household-side inventory-theoretic portfolio management, we find that the resulting model is...