Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...

Eine Vielzahl von Ökonomen untersucht mit Hilfe verschiedener theoretischer Modelle, inwiefern Steuern Einfluss auf wirtschaftliche Entscheidungen haben. Eine grundlegende Annahme in diesen Modellen ist dabei die Abwesenheit von Fehlwahrnehmungen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, systematische...

The inflation expectations channel of the transmission mechanism is generally recognised as crucial for the implementation of modern monetary policy. This paper briefly reviews the practices commonly employed for measuring inflation expectations in South Africa, and offers an additional method,...

Uma avaliação empírica da existência de racionamento de crédito, segundo Stiglitz e Weiss (1981), requer o estudo do impacto da política monetária sobre o mercado de crédito, em especial sobre a taxa de juros dos empréstimos. Desta forma, o objetivo deste artigo é analisar as...

Monetary policy's weight in macroeconomic policy has increased over the past years, especially with the liberalization of financial markets and development of new financial instruments. With this new global economy, the gap between countries has become wider, and the less developed are...

Information asymmetries seem to play an important role in monetary economics. We consider three forms of information transmission which can be used to alleviate these information asymmetries. First, if information is verifiable or the publication of information is in the central bank's interest,...