Is asset liquidity a source of price volatility? We answer this question within a continuous-time, New Monetarist economy under extrinsic uncertainty and endogenous asset liquidity. We consider single or multiple assets, risk-free or risky assets, assets that have a positive intrinsic value, no...

This paper introduces an empirical measure of the cost of allocating money market volatility between the money stock and the Federal funds rate, the principal purpose being to devise a framework for data-based measures of the short-run implied by alternative operating procedures

We argue that long-run inflation has nonlinear and state-dependent effects on unemployment, output, and welfare. Using panel data from the OECD, we document three correlations. First, there is a positive long-run relationship between anticipated inflation and unemployment. Second, there is also...

This study investigates the impact effect of monetary policy shocks on the exchange rates of Brazil, Mexico and Chile. We find that even a focus on 1 day exchange rate changes following policy events -- which reduces the potential for reverse causality considerably -- fails to lend support for...

In this paper we develop a general framework to analyze state space models with timevarying system matrices where time variation is driven by the score of the conditional likelihood. We derive a new filter that allows for the simultaneous estimation of the state vector and of the time-varying...