A discussion of sticky nominal wages, showing that nominal income or price-level targeting policies result in smaller distortions than do policies that target output or money.

Remarks by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's 57th economic conference, "Fulfilling the Full Employment Mandate - Monetary Policy and the Labor Market", Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston,...

Interest rates have reacted strongly to the monthly employment report in recent years. The authors document the reaction of rates to the report and provide evidence that it has been stronger since the mid-1980s than in earlier years. Evidently the report now has greater impact than formerly on...

Remarks by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's 57th economic conference, "Fulfilling the Full Employment Mandate - Monetary Policy and the Labor Market", Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston,...

In Part 1 of this two-part series, Evan Koenig explains why some economists are skeptical that staggered price adjustment can account for monetary policy's sustained effects on aggregate economic activity. In Part 2, Koenig looks at labor-market imperfections as a possible source of persistence....

This paper uses the open economy structural VAR model developed in Buckle, Kim, Kirkham, McLellan and Sharma (2002) to evaluate the impact of monetary policy on New Zealand business cycles and inflation variability and the output/ inflation variance trade-off. The model includes a forward-...

Zusammenfassung Mit dem Beitritt zur Europäischen Währungsunion geben die Mitgliedsländer (und ihre Zentralbanken) die Souveränität in geldpolitischen Fragen an die Europäische Zentralbank ab. Die Geldpolitik scheidet somit als Instrument der nationalen Wirtschaftspolitik aus. Wenn ihr...

This paper first provides empirical evidence that labour market outcomes for the less educated, who also tend to be poorer, are substantially more volatile than labour market outcomes for the well-educated, who tend to be richer. We estimate job finding rates and separation rates by educational...

Since commercial banks play important roles in the financial markets, it isimportant to evaluate whether banks operate efficiently. Moreover, given increasedcompetition from non-bank financial institutions, commercial banks should operatemore efficiently than they did previously. Commercial...