This letter explores the role of costly liquidation of the collateralized asset in a stochastic version of the Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) model. We document that the degree of inefficiency in the debt enforcement procedure plays a key role in the endogenous amplification of productivity shocks...

How important are the benefits of low price-level uncertainty? This paper explores the desirability of price-level path targeting in an estimated DSGE model fit to Canadian data. The policy implications are based on social welfare evaluations. Compared to the historical inflation targeting rule,...