variances for all series, and decreases in the variances of inflation and the output gap, ithout any need of sunspot shocks … capture the truth, whereas impulse-response functions to a monetary policy shock exhibit little change across regimes. Since …

helps to explain the sluggishness of inflation and the persistence of output after a monetary policy shock. The ability of …In order to explain the joint fluctuations of output, inflation and the labor market, this paper first develops a … general equilibrium model that integrates a theory of equilibrium unemployment into a monetary model with nominal price …

-term inflation volatility in response to exogenous shocks can be optimal; the optimal response to adverse financial shocks is to … lower interest rates, if not at the zero bound, and to engineer a short period of controlled inflation; the Taylor rule may …

degree of wage rigidity makes monetary policy more effective, i.e. a monetary policy shock transmits faster onto inflation … fluctuations. Our results point primarily towards disturbances in the bargaining process as a significant contributor to inflation …

on output and, in particular, also on inflation in the euro area under alternative settings for monetary policy. We … that this over-proportionality is stronger for the fiscal multiplier on inflation than on output. We relate this finding to …