What is the probability of high inflation; how high, when? These questions are important to all investors since even the 2% level to which we are accustomed will cut an investor's portfolio by over 17% during a decade. This 2% level is the target of the Federal Reserve, along with near 0%...

Public debt management has gained prominence over the last years. The pursuit of an adequate public debt composition is critical to the objective of minimizing long term financing costs, while ensuring the maintenance of prudent risk levels. In this sense, we devise a benchmark for the public...

The article analyzes the interaction between monetary and fiscal policy in Mexico. We calibrated a semi-structural model for a small open economy, based on Aguilar and Ramírez-Bulos (2018), for Mexico by using quarterly data from 2001Q1 to 2019Q4. The fiscal policy block models the fiscal...

Turkish Abstract: Bu metin, bugün dahi gecerli olan ve zaman içerisinde daha da gelistirilmis bulunan, örneğin halen Uluslararası Para Fonu (IMF) tarafından kullanılan, para bazı analizi ve parasal kontrol modeli üzerine yapilmis ilk araştırmalardandır.Çalısmada para bazı...

This report is one of the first studies discussing monetary base analysis and control model, a concept even today is alive and more developed by, for example, by IMF to use its analysis. The study presents monetary base approach to control of money flows and the links between monetary base,...

We consider a frictionless constant endowment economy based on Leeper (1991). In this economy, it is shown that, under an ad-hoc monetary rule and an ad-hoc fiscal rule, there are two equilibria. One has active monetary policy and passive fiscal policy, while the other has passive monetary...

In the discrete-time new-Keynesian model with public debt, Ramsey optimal policy eliminates the indeterminacy of simple-rules multiple equilibria between the fiscal theory of the price level versus new-Keynesian versus an unpleasant equilibrium. If public debt volatility is taken into account...

I present evidence of systematically heterogeneous expectations, a violation of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis. I demonstrate that the expectations of different gender and wealth cohorts have different relative abilities to predict inflation, interest rates, unemployment, income, stock...

This collection of papers analyzes the versatility and predictive power of survey expectations data in asset pricing and macroeconomic forecasting. The first paper, Using Sentiment Surveys to Predict GDP Growth and Stock Returns sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment...

This paper seeks to measure international currency crisis. It has taken the case of the A5 countries in 1997 and has developed a methodology meant to measure and explain currency crisis. The study uses Jha amp; Murthy (2006) approach for constructing composite indices for capturing the causes -...