Does time-varying business volatility affect the price setting of firms and thus the transmission of monetary policy … Climate Survey the impact of idiosyncratic volatility on the price setting behavior of firms. In a second step, we use a … calibrated New Keynesian business cycle model to gauge the effects of time-varying volatility on the transmission of monetary …

1970s' United States would not have prevented the Great Inflation. We show that a standard policy counterfactual suggests … that the Bundesbank – which is near-universally credited for sparing West Germany the Great Inflation – would also not have … been able to prevent the Great Inflation in the United States. The sheer implausibility of this result sounds a cautionary …