There is increasingly dissatisfaction with the traditional New Keynesian IS curve linking the interest rate to consumption. The central bank'™s interest rate target is found to differ significantly from the implied consumer Euler rate thus impairing the working of the (traditional) monetary...

The current debate whether zero interest rates are caused by a saving glut or a liquidity glut is resolved by the distinction between the market and the natural rate, where saving affects only the latter variable, and monetary policy mainly the first. This topic is linked to a second one: the...