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...

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...

Central bank policymakers are not primarilyrandom number generators.1 Reading boththe financial press and the work of academics,however, one might get the opposite impression.Reporters (and the readers of their stories) seem toattach considerable importance to each Federal OpenMarket Committee...

The deterioration in the financial climate over the past12 months has eroded consumers’ confidence in theirown financial security, with 58% of consumers eitherdisagreeing (33%) or disagreeing strongly (25%) thatthey feel more financially secure.This can be attributed, to some extent, to...

Interest in commodity prices as indicators of consumerprice inflation has ebbed and flowed withthe rise and fall in commodity prices themselves.True to form, as commodity prices have surged inthe last two years (Chart 1), interest in their predictivepower has returned. Inflation hawks point to...