This revised second edition of Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle provides a rigorous graduate-level introduction to the New Keynesian framework and its applications to monetary policy. The New Keynesian framework is the workhorse for the analysis of monetary policy and its...

Over the past 30 years (1990-2019), African economies have experienced remarkable improvements in real macroeconomic conditions, characterized by higher and more stable real per-capita growth rates, and lower and more stable inflation. This paper documents and seeks to explain these changes at...

This paper examines whether tasking central banks with leaning against asset booms can conáict with their existing mandates to stabilize goods prices and output. The paper embeds the Harrison and Kreps (1978) model of speculative booms in a monetary model based on Rocheteau, Weill, and Wong...

Over the past twenty years, macroeconomic performance has improved in industrialized and developing countries alike. In a broad cross-section of countries inflation volatility has fallen markedly while output variability has either fallen or risen only slightly. This increased stability can be...

Abweichend von der herrschenden Meinung kam der Autor zu dem Ergebnis, daß eine nachhaltige Stabilisierung des russischen Geldwesens mittelfristig nicht möglich sei. Um diese These zu belegen, untersuchte der Verfasser unter Zuhilfenahme der Institutionenökonomik, welche in Markwirtschaften...