This paper investigates an optimal investment problem faced by a defined contribution (DC) pension fund manager under inflationary risk. It is assumed that a representative member of a DC pension plan contributes a fixed share of his salary to the pension fund during the finite time horizon [0,...

This paper investigates an optimal investment problem faced by a defined contribution (DC) pension fund manager under inflationary risk. It is assumed that a representative member of a DC pension plan contributes a fixed share of his salary to the pension fund during the finite time horizon [0,...

We consider a framework featuring a central bank, private and financial agents as well as a financial market. The central bank's objective is to maximize a functional, which measures the classical trade-off between output and inflation plus income from the sales of inflation linked calls minus...

We study a game theoretic model of the conflict which arises between a monetary authority and the private sector with regard to the inflation-rate. Building on the simple static Barro and Gordon model, we assume that rather than playing a one shot game, the monetary authority and private sector...

In order to tackle the non-availability of inflation futures data, we introduce the futures on the CPI proxy (FCP). Compared to over-the-counter inflation-linked derivatives, the FCP is a more accessible tool for inflation forecasting. The time series of the FCP chain is analysed by a two-factor...