Az utóbbi két-három év magyar gazdaságpolitikai vitáiban a kínálatorientációs gazdaságpolitika fogalma sokszor elhangzott, de a fogalom pontos tartalmáról nemigen volt szó. Többen a restrikció, illetve a vele hibásan azonosnak tekintett monetarista gazdaságpolitika...

A Közgazdasági Szemle 2010. októberi számában közölt cikkem mellett megjelent Bihari Péter és Valentinyi Ákos írása is, amelyben vitatják írásomat. Számos állításuk nem hagyható válasz nélkül. Mivel vitacikkről van szó, vártam, hogy mások is hozzászólhassanak. Ez...

Whether countries benefit from forming a monetary union depends critically on the way monetary policy is conducted. This is mainly because monetary policy determines whether and to what extent a flexible nominal exchange rate fosters or hampers macroeconomic stabilization, even if monetary...

The paper models money demand in the Dominican Republic using a novel, automatic general-to-specific, econometric technology - PcGets. The study finds economically sensible long run relations for real M1 and M2. Likewise, meaningful short run money demand functions are estimated. Remarkably, the...

Remarks at the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

I develop a structural general equilibrium model and estimate it for New Zealand using Bayesian techniques. The estimated model considers a monetary policy regime where the central bank targets overall inflation but is also concerned about output, exchange rate movements, and interest rate...

The celebrated Taylor rule provides a simple formula that aims to capture how the central bank interest rate is adjusted as a linear function of inflation and output gap. However, the rule does not take explicitly into account the zero lower bound on the interest rate. Prior studies on interest...

Money illusion is frequently invoked and frequently resisted by economists. Resisted as it contradicts the maximizing paradigm of microeconomic theory and invoked since a tendency to think in nominal rather than real terms becomes evident in the behavior of agents. This paper rationalizes money...

This article uses automatic model selection procedures, based on the gernal-to-specific approach, to investigate inflation in China. A novelty of this article is the use of a technique called impulse indicator saturation which allows us to uncover instabilities and to specify a general model and...

Should the central bank prevent “excessive” asset price dynamics or should it wait until the boom spontaneously turns into a crash and intervene only afterwards? The debate over this issue goes back at least to the exchange between Bernanke-Gertler (BG) and Cecchetti but has not settled yet....