In the Eurozone price stickiness differs among countries. I explore its consequences on the optimal rate of inflation … in a two-country model. On the one hand, with local currencies an inflation tax is partly imposed on the foreign country … optimal inflation is positive, ii) in a monetary union the first motive is absent and the optimal inflation is negative and …

-run relationship between inflation and output is positive in the Rotemberg model and negative in the Calvo model. ii) The log … inflation enlarges the determinacy region in the Rotemberg model, while it shrinks the determinacy region in the Calvo model. iv …) The responses of output and inflation to a positive technology shock are amplified by trend inflation in Calvo, while they …

This paper studies monetary policy rules in a small open economy with Inflation Targeting, incomplete pass-through and …