An economy exhibits structural heterogeneity when the forecasts of different agents have different effects on the determination of aggregate variables. Various forms of structural heterogeneity can arise and we study the important case of economies in which agents' behavior depends on forecasts...

A fundamentals based monetary policy rule, which would be the optimal monetary policy without commitment when private agents have perfectly rational expectations, is unstable if in fact these agents follow standard adaptive learning rules. This problem can be overcome if private expectations are...

Standard-Lehrbuch an Hochschulen, um ca. 50 Seiten erweitert und auf jeden Fall neben die Vorauflage (2001) zu stellen (Erstausgabe war im ID 28/99). Das Arbeitsbuch dazu von Marco Herrmann (ID 36/01), jetzt in 2., überarbeiteter Auflage lieferbar. (3) (LK/E: Kardung)