The present paper makes progress in explaining the role of capital for inflation and output dynamics. We followWoodford (2003, Ch. 5) in assuming Calvo pricing combined with a convex capital adjustment cost at the firm level. Our main result is that capital accumulation affects inflation...

The formation of the European Union (EU) is the one of the biggest political – economic events of the last 50 years. The aim of this study is to develop EU economy functioning system dynamic model. Main research method is system dynamics. General scheme of EU economy system dynamic model is...

The work, based on a mathematical model, shows that investment of the additional income into production under reasonable state control, accompanied by moderate inflationary pressure on the consumer market, effects optimal economic growth. The inflationary pressure can to a considerable extent be...

Like their European counterparts, French households reduced their savings and increased their consumption. They invested in liquid bank assets, reducing their exposure to life insurance products.

There is a long literature examining the theoretical relationships between the rate of inflation and the size of the capital stock in an economy. This literature has produced varied predictions about the effects of inflation on the capital stock. In this paper, we present some new empirical...

According to the Taylor principle a central bank should adjust the nominal interest rate by more than one-for-one in response to changes in current inflation. Most of the existing literature supports the view that by following this simple recommendation a central bank can avoid being a source of...

New-Keynesian (NK) models can only account for the dynamic effects of monetary policy shocks if it is assumed that aggregate capital accumulation is much smoother than it would be the case under frictionless firm-level investment, as discussed in Woodford (2003, Ch. 5). We find that lumpy...

The lumpy nature of plant-level investment is generally not taken into account in the context of monetary theory (see, e.g., Christiano et al. 2005 and Woodford 2005). We formulate a generalized (S,s) pricing and investment model which is empirically more plausible along that dimension....

We present a simple sticky-price model with inventories and show that the employment response to a productivity shock depends crucially on the extent to which goods are storable. If firms hold inventories, then, in response to a favorable cost shock, firms can expand output relative to sales....