This paper examines the effects of ex-change-rate policies when individuals maximize lifetime utility on the basis of rational expectations about the future. The economy studied is one in which the authorities allow free mobility of capital under a crawling-peg exchange-rate regime. Many...

This paper examines the effects of ex-change-rate policies when individuals maximize lifetime utility on the basis of rational expectations about the future. The economy studied is one in which the authorities allow free mobility of capital under a crawling-peg exchange-rate regime. Many...

Incorporating adaptive learning into an open-economy DSGE model, we examine how monetary policy rules should adjust when agents’ information set deviates from that assumed under the rational expectations paradigm. We find that when agents observe current shocks but don’t know the parameters...