We challenge the widely held belief that New-Keynesian models cannot predict optimal positive in‡ ations. We finnd that these are justified by the Phelps argument. This mainly happens because we also consider distortionary expects of public transfers. Our predictions are broadly consistent...

What are the causes of the shadow economy? We provide new answers to this old question. The sharp distinction between theoretical priors on the institutional determinants of the shadow economy and the technique used for its measurement is the first novel contribution of the paper. The second...

When the central bank is the sole policymaker, the combination of limited asset market participation and consumption habits can have dramatic implications for the optimal monetary policy rule and for stability properties of a business cycle model characterized by price and nominal wage...

We reconsider the issue of equilibrium determinacy under the limited asset market participation hypothesis in a medium-scale model which accounts for external consumption habits. This allows to characterize concern for relative consumption in the preferences of agents which are heterogeneous in...

We show that the combination rule-of-thumb consumers and consump- tion habits dramatically aspects the dynamic performance of DSGE mod- els, resurrecting Bilbiie's (2008) inverted Taylor principle. Another origi- nal contribution of the paper is the analysis of optimal operational simple rules...

In the workhorse DSGE model, the optimal steady state inflation rate is near to zero or slightly negative and inflation is almost completely stabilized along the business cycle (Schmitt-Grohè and Uribe, 2011). We reconsider the issue, allowing for agent heterogeneity in the access to the market...

We challenge the widely held belief that New-Keynesian models cannot predict optimal positive inflation rates. In fact these are justi…fied by the Phelps argument that monetary fi…nancing can alleviate the burden of distortionary taxation. We obtain this result because, in contrast with...

We estimate a medium scale DSGE model for the Euro Area to gain intuition on the importance of Limited Asset Market Participation (LAMP). Our results suggest that LAMP is sizeable (39% of households over the 1993-2012 sample) and important to understand EMU business cycle, especially, in the...

By introducing external consumption habits and Limited Asset Market Participation in an otherwise standard New Keynesian DSGE model we uncover a causality link between limited asset market participation, consumption inequality and macroeconomic volatility. We also obtain that monetary...

Models based on the representative agent assumption cannot rationalize observed equity premia. In response to this, exchange economy models have introduced agents heterogeneity, typically in the form of bond and equity holders. We reconsider the issue introducing Limited Asset Market...