Die hohen Inflationsraten seit Frühjahr 2021 lenkten auch neue Aufmerksamkeit auf das Jahrzehnt der 1970er Jahre, in dem Westdeutschland letztmalig für viele Jahre und nicht nur kurzfristig unter hohen Inflationsraten litt. Die Inflationsraten betrugen in keinem Jahr unter 2 %, meist über 4 %...

With sticky prices, optimizing agents and money in the utility function, I derive the exact analytical solution for optimal monetary policy given a zero lower bound (ZLB) on the interest rate. The Phillips curve is Neo-Classical, and the ZLB is then not a constraint on optimal policy. Optimal...

Central bank independence (CBI) is a very important precondition for price stability. However, the empirical evidence for a correlation between both is relatively weak. In this paper, this weakness is countered with a) an extended measure of monetary commitment, which includes well-known...

A central tenet of the so-called new consensus view in macroeconomics is that there is no long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment. The main policy implication of this principle is that all monetary policy can aim for is (modest) short-run output stabilization and long-run price...