Four major central banks have adopted new approaches to policy rate forward guidance with the aim of enhancing the effectiveness of monetary policy at the zero lower bound. In this special feature, we examine these approaches and assess their impact. So far, the forward guidance appears to have...

In this paper we assess the empirical performance of commonly used empirical specifications of the baseline New Keynesian model for the US and the euro area. We estimate standard specifications of the model and extended specifications also including non-standard determinants of aggregate supply...