It is important to understand how companies set prices, since price-setting behaviour plays a key role in the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Many surveys have been conducted in a range of countries to shed light on this issue by asking companies directly about how they set prices. This...

This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which inflation will neither increase nor decrease in the short-run. We estimate the NAIRU jointly with price equations by using the Kalman filter. Our work suggests that both structural...

Recent policy formulation has emphasised targeting rules. These often lead to policy problems which are singular, and need special solution techniques. We set out solutions for the control of singular linear rational expectations models with quadratic objectives. These are both time inconsistent...

In this paper we propose an algorithm for the solution of optimalcontrol problems with nonlinear models based on a generalised Gauss-Newton algorithm but making use of analytic model derivatives. Themethod is implemented in WinSolve, a general nonlinear model solution program