We use a simple New Keynesian model, with firm specific capital, non-zero steady-state inflation, long-run risks and … Epstein-Zin preferences to study the volatility implications of a monetary policy shock. An unexpected increases in the policy … rate by 150 basis points causes output and inflation volatility to rise around 10% above their steady-state standard …

Brazil has had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100 percent per year in 1964, decreased until the … first oil shock (1973), but accelerated again afterward, reaching levels above 100 percent on average between 1980 and 1994 … crisis in the early 1980s. We show that the high-inflation period (1960-1994) was characterized by a combination of fiscal …