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 %...

While consumption habits have been utilised as a means of generating a hump shaped output response to monetary policy shocks in sticky-price New Keynesian economies, there is relatively little analysis of the impact of habits (particularly, external habits) on optimal policy. In this paper we...

This paper examines the implications of segmented assets markets for the real and nominal effects of monetary policy. I develop a model, in which varieties of consumption bundles are purchased sequentially. Newly injected money thus disseminates slowly through the economy via second-round...

In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a twosector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...