This paper proposes a method and a toolkit for solving optimal policy with imperfect commitment in linear quadratic … monetary policy. We apply our method to the Smets and Wouters (2007) model, where we show that imperfect commitment has …

prior to issuing additional debt. For realistic values of issuance costs and debt maturity, the no-commitment policy … generates tax benefits that are similar to those obtained by a benchmark policy with commitment. For positive but arbitrarily …

's choices with commitment or in the moment are "better". This impasse can be overcome in settings in which dynamically …

optimal contracts with and without commitment and derive an exclusion restriction that is useful to identify the relevant … commitment scenario. The empirical analysis takes advantage of a data set from Spanish soccer player contracts. Our test rejects … the commitment hypothesis, which entails the acceptance of the existence of contractual incompleteness in the data. We …

is driven by exogenous technology shocks. We first consider the commitment case, and characterize the Ramsey equilibrium … positively correlated with production. Then, we relax the commitment assumption, and we show how to determine numerically whether …, Commitment, Time-consistency, Ramsey equilibrium, Markov perfect equilibria, Sustainable equilibria. …