Singapore's unique monetary policy consists of a managed exchange rate framework that can be characterized as a Taylor-like reaction function with the nominal devaluation rate instead of the nominal interest rate as the main policy instrument. We build a small open economy New Keynesian model to...

In this paper Markus Knell studies the determinants of unemployment in a two-country- model, where real wages are the outcome of the strategic interaction between various institutional players (firms, unions, central banks). He shows that: (i) the results derived in the recent literature on this...

The purpose of this paper is to present the role of the exchange rate stability in a small and open economy, where the case of the Republic of Macedonia is investigated. Also, an accent is given to the role of the expectations of the economic agents for the future movements of the exchange rate,...