[...]Inflation targeting in New Zealand followed legislationthat mandated a Policy Targets Agreement (PTA)between the elected government and the newlyindependent central bank, which resulted in a jointlydecided numerical target for inflation.[...]

In practice, central banks have been confronted with a trade-off between stabilising inflation and output when dealing with rising oil prices. This contrasts with the result in the standard New Keynesian model that ensuring complete price stability is the optimal thing to do, even when an oil...

While consumption habits have been utilised as a means of generating a hump shapedoutput response to monetary policy shocks in sticky-price New Keynesian economies,there is relatively little analysis of the impact of habits (particularly, external habits) onoptimal policy. In this paper we...

This paper estimates a structural model of multiple-species harvesting costs in the easternGulf of Mexico reef fish fishery. The calibrated model is used to predict fleet size, vessellevelharvesting activity and fleet-wide revenues and costs that are expected under a proposedindividual fishing...

In this paper we present an extension of the Taylor model with staggered wages inwhich wage-setting is also influenced by reference norms (i.e. by benchmark wages).We show that reference norms can considerably increase the persistence of inflationand the extent of real wage rigidity but that...

Interest is an important issue in investment and finance theory. Despite this fact it is seldom analyzed in cost accounting. There the calculation of interest costs follows practical rules.(...)

This paper analyzes the numerical impact of different surplus distribution mechanisms on the risk exposure of a life insurance company selling with profit life insurance policies with a cliquet-style interest rate guarantee. Three representative companies are considered, each using a different...

Kennzeichnet man Banken von i h r e r s p e z i e l l e n Funktionsübernahmei n e i n e r V o l k s w i r t s c h a f t her, so s t e l l t man f e s t , daß Banken,insbesondere die das B i l d des modernen deutschen Bankensystemsbeherrschenden Universalbanken (1), heute üblicherweisefolgende...

Rechnungssystemzu den in der Praxis intensiv genutzten Instrumenten unseres Faches. Bis hinzu eher am Haushaltswesen orientierten öffentlichen Unternehmen wie Krankenhäusernoder neuerdings der Bundespost1 sieht man ihre Einrichtung als notwendig an. Andererseitsweist sie eine große Zahl...

[...]In this paper, we employ a different empirical strategy tostudy the effects of ownership structure on firm performancethat is free from any corporate events in the ratherhomogenous banking industry. In essence, the performance ofpublicly traded bank holding companies (BHCs) is comparedwith...