This paper develops a welfare-based model of monetary policy in an open economy. We focus on the extent to which monetary policy should be employed in maintaining the exchange rate. The traditional approach maintains that exchange rate flexibility is desirable in the presence of real...

What does financial globalization imply for the design of monetary policy? Does the case for price stability change in an environment of large cross country gross asset holdings? This paper is concerned with the effects of monetary policy under endogenous international portfolio choice and...