Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es zu prüfen, inwieweit unterschiedliche Varianten berechenbarer dynamischer Gleichgewichtsmodelle die empirische Evidenz zum monetären Transmissionsmechanismus nachbilden. Die zentrale Frage dieser Arbeit, inwieweit nominale Rigiditäten zu Trägheiten des...

This paper analyzed the impact of United States (US) monetary shocks on the economies of selected East Asian countries using a structural vector autoregression model. We found that the impacts of the US monetary shocks on domestic interest rates and exchange rates contradict conventional wisdom....

This paper is concerned with how stylised differences in monetary policy transmission mechanisms and product and labour market rigidities between the US and euro-area economies affect their resilience to temporary shocks. To address this issue, a small general equilibrium model with long-run...

Are uncertainty shocks a major source of business cycle fluctuations? This paper studies the effect of a mean preserving shock to the variance of aggregate total factor productivity (macro uncertainty) and to the dispersion of entrepreneurs' idiosyncratic productivity (micro uncertainty) in a...