We assess the conditions under which an interest rate rule granting an explicit response to stock prices can shield the economy against endogenous aggregate instability in the form of fluctuations driven by self-fulfilling beliefs, and fundamental equilibria that are not learnable in the...

We investigate whether monetary policy defined as an interest rate rule should respond to stock prices fluctuations under the following two criteria: 1) the rule must guarantee a unique equilibrium and 2) the MSV representation of this unique equilibrium must be learnable in the E-stability...

This paper studies the equilibrium determinacy properties of a simple interest rate rule in a small open economy subject to endogenous dollarization (the use of a foreign currency in transactions) and international financial frictions (proxied by a feedback from external debt to sovereign risk...

Using a closed economy model with a flexible-price good and a sticky-price good we study the conditions under which interest rate rules induce real determinacy and, more importantly, the MSV solution is learnable in the E-stability sense proposed by Evans and Honkapohja (2001). We show that...

Can active Taylor rules (i.e. monetary rules where the nominal interest rate responds more than proportionally to inflation) deliver global equilibrium uniqueness in small open economies? By studying the local and global dynamics of a standard small open economy we point out the misleading...

We present an extensive analysis of the consequences for global equilibrium determinacy in flexible-price open economies of implementing active interest rate rules, i.e., monetary rules where the nominal interest rate responds more than proportionally to inflation. We show that conditions under...