This paper examines some standard open-economy New Keynesian models to address the question of how globalisation affects the inflation process. Specifically, it investigates how the Phillips curve for consumer price inflation in a country is affected by openness, and how the optimal choice of...

This is one of the contributions which is part of BIS Paper 68 and which was presented at the BIS-sponsored sessions at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) meetings in 2010-11, focusing on the drivers and effects of capital flows and the challenges they pose for the...

Engel and Zhu (2017) revisit a number of major exchange rate puzzles and conduct empirical tests to compare the behaviour of real exchange rates among pairs of economies that have rigidly fixed nominal exchange rates with their behaviour among pairs of economies under floating rates. They find...