The effectiveness of the foreign exchange market interventions conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank during the Louvre period to alter either the level or the volatility of the $/DM spot rate is examined. Volatility quotes implicit in foreign currency options are employed to recover the impact of...

This paper studies the relative performance of alternative monetary policy rules in the presence of oil price shocks in a small open economy optimizing model. Our analysis shows that it is important to distinguish between alternative price indices (CPI, core CPI, and GDP deflator) when modeling...

Text 4. In diesem Buch wird die aktuelle Problematik der weltweit niedrigen Leitzinsen aufgegriffen und das auf John M. Keynes zurückgehende Konzept der Liquiditätsfalle in die moderne Makroökonomik übertragen. In drei einfachen dynamischen Modellen wird untersucht, ob die Liquiditätsfalle...