This paper empirically investigates the role of long-term inflation expectations for the monetary transmission mechanism. In contrast to earlier studies, we confirm that U.S. long-term inflation expectations respond significantly to a monetary policy shock. In line with a re-anchoring channel of...

This paper analyzes the time-varying credibility of the Fed's inflation target in an empirical macro model with asymmetric information, where the public has to learn about the actual inflation target from the Fed's interest rate policy. To capture the evolving communication strategy of the Fed,...

Diese Arbeit untersucht die empirische Relevanz des Monetären Modells fiir die Erklärung des DM / Dollar Wechselkurses. Dabei zeigt sich, daß der in der neueren empirischen Literatur übliche Testansatz (reduced form approach) zu unplausiblen Parameterrestriktionen und zu ineffizienten...