Rational Expectations (RE) models have two crucial dimensions: 1) agents correctly forecast future prices given all available information, and 2) given expectations, agents solve optimization problems and these solutions in turn determine actual price realizations. Experimental testing of such...

We examine the expectational stability (E-stability) of rational expectations equilibrium under optimal interest rate rules in the context of the standard, "New Keynesian" model of the monetary transmission mechanism. We focus on the case where the monetary authority adds interest rate...

The paper analyzes dollarization in the sense of asset substitution, where a foreign currency competes with local assets, especially domestic capital, as a store of value, the impact of dollarization on capital accumulation and output, and why economies remain dollarized long after a successful...