In recent years the New Keynesian Model with price stickiness of the Calvo type has become the most widely used theoretical framework for addressing various normative issues such as how optimal monetary and fiscal policy should be conducted. However, the New Keynesian Model has been criticized...

Die vorliegende Dissertation leistet einen Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Diskussion um nach unten starre Nominallöhne. Die Arbeit besteht aus drei eigenständigen Aufsätzen. Der erste Aufsatz, Ausmaß und reale Konsequenzen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne: Eine Untersuchung für den deutschen...

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses the link between the changes in and the drivers of inflation in a broad range of advanced economies, with special emphasis on those of the euro area. Inflation rates are seen to be highly synchronised across countries, especially in the euro area...

En este documento se ofrece una panorámica de la evolución de la inflación a escala global en la última década y se trata de descubrir qué factores podrían explicar los niveles muy bajos de inflación durante la recuperación de la Gran Recesión. Se hace una revisión de la literatura...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2011. Major:Economics. Advisor: Patrick Kehoe. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 119 pages, appendices A-B.

We identify the impact of short-term interest rates on credit risk-taking by analyzing a comprehensive credit register from Spain, a country where for the last twenty years monetary policy was mostly decided abroad. Discrete choice, within borrower comparison and duration analyses show that...

To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions reduce loan granting, especially to firms or from banks...