The recent macroeconomic literature stresses the importance of managing heterogeneous expectations in the formulation … interest rate rules when agents have heterogeneous expectations and update their beliefs based on past performance as in Brock … converge to the rational expectations equilibrium as multiple equilibria may persist, even when a fully rational, but costly …

intertemporal trade-off, not present under rational expectations: it is optimal to forego stabilizing the economy in the present in … actually has rational expectations is much smaller than if the central bank mistakenly assumes rational expectations when in …

Central bank communication plays an important role in shaping market participants' expectations. This paper studies a … helps stabilize expectations around the inflation target equilibrium. …

Central bank communication plays an important role in shaping market participants’ expectations. This paper studies a … helps stabilize expectations around the inflation target equilibrium. -- Monetary policy ; nonlinear dynamics ; learning …

This paper analyzes how the formation of expectations constrains monetary and fiscal policy design. Economic agents … the policy regime using historical data. Regime uncertainty substantially narrows, relative to a rational expectations … analysis of the model, the menu of policies consistent with expectations stabilization. When agents are learning about the …