We revisit the contribution of misperceived money to business cycles, and in particular to the inertial dynamics of inflation following a monetary policy shock. We establish three things. First, the difference between preliminary and revised money data captures monetary misperceptions well....

Imperfect information has played a prominent role in modern business cycle theory. We assess its importance by estimating the New Keynesian (NK) model under alternative informational assumptions. One version focuses on confusion between temporary and persistent disturbances. Another, on...

The Calvo scheme represents the standard specification of price resetting in the New Keynesian model. We show that using this rather than a fixed duration (Taylor) scheme matters importantly for the dynamics of the model as it allows it to generate hump-shaped response of output without an...

Was the high inflation of the 1970s mostly due to incomplete information about the structure of the economy (an unavoidable mistake as suggested by Orphanides, 2000)? Or, to weak reaction to expected inflation and/or excessive policy activism that led to indeterminacies (a policy mistake, a...

We evaluate the case for perfect price (inflation) stabilization in a New Keynesian (NNS) model that includes capital accumulation, a variety of shocks, a monetary and an imperfect competition distortion. In such a model, price rigidity may provide the monetary authorities with an opportunity to...

Recent empirical work has suggested that in response to a positive technology shock employment shows a "persistent decline". We show that the standard, open economy, flexible price model can generate a negative response of employment to a positive technology shock and can also match the negative...