It is well known that the canonical New Keynesian model cannot produce inflation inertia observed in real data. The purpose of this research is to investigate expectation formation process as a potential source of inflation inertia. We examine a purely forward-looking New Keynesian Phillips...

Financial institutions, especially in Europe, hold a disproportionate amount of domestic sovereign debt. We examine the extent to which this home bias leads to capital misallocation in a real business cycle model with imperfect information and fiscal stress. We assume banks can hold sovereign...