Was ist das Finanzsystem? Was leistet es? Was sind Hedgefonds und wie funktionieren Leerverkäufe, was haben amerikanische Verbraucher mit unseren Steuergeldern zu tun? Die Analyse der Finanzkrise ist Anlass für eine systematische allgemein verständliche Darstellung der modernen...

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...