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Indeterminacy of rational expectations equilibria in sequential financial markets
Donati, Paola - 2003
We provide a general characterization of the structure of rational expectations equilibria of any degree of revelation … market and nominal assets. We estimate the dimension of the rational expectations equilibria for any degree of revelation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635915
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Consumer inflation expectations in Poland
£yziak, Tomasz - 2003
Inflation expectations constitute a subject of particular contemporary interest to central banks, especially those … pursuing a monetary policy based on a strategy of direct inflation targeting. Macroeconomic theory indicates that the … to properties of inflation expectations. Qualitative data on inflation expectations, as obtained from surveys, can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635882
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the anchoring of long-term inflation expectations
Castelnuovo, Efrem; Nicoletti-Altimari, Sergio; … - 2003
help anchoring inflation expectations. We use survey data on long-term inflation expectations in 15 industrial countries … since the early nineties to investigate how well anchored are inflation expectations. We find that in all countries except … Japan long-term inflation expectations are well anchored and, generally, increasingly so over the past decade. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635904
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Downward nominal wage rigidity and the long-run Philips Curve
Coenen, Günter - 2003
This paper summarises the results of a quantitative study of the possible impact of downward nominal wage rigidity on the determination of inflation and output in the euro area and the existence of a non-vertical long-run Phillips curve. The study was undertaken in the context of the review of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635901
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Modelling inflation in the euro area
Jansen, Eilev S. - 2004
The paper presents an incomplete competition model (ICM), where inflation is determined jointly with unit labour cost growth. The ICM is estimated on data for the Euro area and evaluated against existing models, i.e. the implicit inflation equation of the Area Wide model (AWM) - cf. Fagan, Henry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636545
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International equity flows and returns
Albuquerque, Rui; Bauer, Gregory H.; Schneider, Martin - 2004
This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636533
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Information acquisition and decision making in committees
Gerling, Kerstin; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kiel, Alexandra; … - 2003
This is a survey on the recent game theoretic literature on committee decision making. We consider theoretical work on the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication in committees. Moreover, we review recent experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635876
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Implementing optimal control in cointegrated I(1) structural VAR models
Monti, Francesca V. - 2003
This paper examines the feasibility of implementing Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control in structural cointegrated VAR models and sheds some light on the two major problems generated by such implementation. The first aspect to be taken into account is the effect of the presence of unit roots...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635883
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Monetary and fiscal interactions in open economies
Lombardo, Giovanni; Sutherland, Alan - 2003
A two-country sticky-price model is used to analyse the interactions between fiscal and monetary policy. The role of an u0091activistu0092 fiscal policy as a stabilisation tool is considered and a measure of the welfare gains from international fiscal policy cooperation is derived. It is found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635884
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Inflation persistence and robust monetary policy design
Coenen, Günter - 2003
This paper investigates the performance of optimised interest rate rules when there is uncertainty about a key determinant of the monetary transmission mechanism, namely the degree of persistence characterising the inflation process. The paper focuses on the euro area and utilises two variants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635885