I study the implications of productivity shocks in a model where agents observe the aggregate level of productivity but not its permanent and transitory components separately. The model`s predictions under learning differ substantially from those under full information and are in line with...

The focus is on the interaction between demand and supply in a small open economy, featuring the dynamics of money wages, private capital, public debtand foreign assets. A macroeconomic shock induces an extended process of adjustment that is characterized by unemployment. This in turn requires a...

This paper examines whether in analysis of the impact of monetary policy, the exchange rate can play a role along with the interest rate as a transmission mechanism of monetary policy effects on economic variables or not? For this purpose, the general dynamic stochastic equilibrium models were...

Firms in many low income countries depend entirely on imported capital and intermediate inputs. As a result, in these countries economic activity is considerably influenced by the capacity of the economy to import these inputs which, in turn, depends on the availability and cost of foreign...