The recent global financial crisis has led central banks to rely heavily on "unconventional" monetary policies. This alternative approach to policy has generated much discussion and a heated and at times confusing debate. The debate has been complicated by the use of different definitions and...

Ziel dieses 1. Teils war es zu zeigen, daß im Rahmen des Kreditmanagements aufgestellte Ziel wie "Erhöhung der Umsätze mit Hilfe liberaler Kreditvergabe" isoliert angestrebte Fehlentwicklugen führen können. Vielmehr sind die Kosten der Kreditvergabe an Kunden (Kreditausfall-,...

Caplin & Leahy (1996) show that, when central bankers learn about theeconomy by observing its response to policy shock, cautious monetary policymay be ineffectual as private agents correctly anticipate that today's interestrate cuts are likely to be followed by future cuts. The central banker...

Recent theoretical work shows that changes in the volatility of inflation and/or unem-ployment affect equilibrium in°ation outcomes when the central banker's loss functionis asymmetric. We show that previous evidence offered in support of the propositionthat the volatility of unemployment helps...

This paper studies a overlapping generations economy with capital where limitedcommunication and stochastic relocation create an endogenous transactions role for…at money. We assume a production function with a knowledge-externality (Romer-style) that nests economies with endogenous growth (AK...

Faced with real and nominal shocks, what should a benevolent central bankdo, …x the money growth rate or target the inflation rate? In this paper, wemake a …rst attempt at studying the optimal choice of monetary policy in-struments in a micro-founded model of money. Speci…cally, we produce...

The Friedman rule, a widely studied prescription for monetary policy, is optimal inTownsend’s turnpike model of money; it is not so in the overlapping generations versionof his stochastic relocation model of money. We investigate these monetary models inthe light of this disparity. To that...

In this paper, we explore the connection between optimal monetary policy and heterogeneityamong agents. We study a standard monetary economy with two types of agents inwhich the stationary distribution of money holdings is non-degenerate. Sans type-specific fiscalpolicy, we show that the...

Inflation rates in a number of OECD follow a common trend over the past four decades: inflation starts out low in the 1960s, rises for a time before peaking in the 1970s or early 1980s, and then falls back to initial levels. This similarity in the behavior of trend inflation suggests that any...

In models of money with an infinitely-lived representative agent (ILRA models), the optimal monetary policyis almost always the Friedman rule. Overlapping generations (OG) models are different: in this paper, westudy how they are different, and why. We investigate the welfare properties of...