Occasionally binding constraints (OBCs) like the zero lower bound (ZLB) can lead to multiple equilibria, and so to belief-driven recessions. To aid in finding policies that avoid this, we derive existence and uniqueness conditions for otherwise linear models with OBCs. Our main result gives...

Die Frage nach der Kausalität fällt in die Methodologie. Methodologie ist in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften ein Bereich, der sowohl bei Ökonomen als auch bei Philosophen kaum Beachtung findet. Ökonomik hat sich ursprünglich als eine kausal erklärende Wissenschaft verstanden. Sie wollte für...

The FOMC lacks systematic procedures for learning from experience what monetary policies have stabilized the economy and what monetary policies have destabilized it. Standard Fed narrative prevents such learning by assuming that all adverse outcomes arise from external shocks, which the Fed...

We investigate the effectiveness of an aggressive anti-inflation monetary policy on the ability of agents to achieve rational expectations equilibrium (REE) forecasts of inflation. An aggressive anti-inflation policy includes a willingness to respond more forcefully to deviations from an...

This paper investigates the effect of an aggressive price stabilizing monetary policy on the ability of agents to reach a rational expectations equilibrium (REE) for inflation and output. We provide a more robust policy implication than the one suggested by Bullard and Mitra (2002a,b). Using an...

This paper studies the efficiency of electronic money system by focusing on the decentralized setting of issuance. In the model competitive money issuers can create small denominated money (or e-money) backed by large denominated government bonds. Under the decentralized environment the issuers...

The last decade has witnessed two groundbreaking developments in monetary economics: The growth in digital private currencies and negative interest rate policies (NIRP), leaving the zero lower bound no longer binding. These developments have introduced two parallel discussions surrounding the...

To understand and appreciate the crucial role privates' investment plays in developing economies towards it sustainable growth, it became an imperative assignment to investigate the effect of corporate taxes and it impacts on privates' Investment in developing countries, however narrowed the...

This is a basic introduction on the money (or cash) generation applying the second law of thermodynamics. As the result of any economic process we observe an increase of the entropy of the magnitude of the value added. Based on this relation it is possible to calculate the necessary money...

The paper analyzes the impacts of Islamic and conventional Banks reserves' restrictions in Sudan. Comprehensively, those restrictions are necessary for health banks, performance and the viability of the macroeconomic performance in any country. The selected period of the analysis (2007-2009) is...