The presence of an occasionally binding constraint due to the zero lower bound (ZLB) in New Keynesian models generally gives rise to multiple equilibria under active Taylor Rules. In order to restore model coherency with active Taylor Rules, we consider appropriate simple fiscal policy...

Following the New Classical Macroeconomics and the New Keynesian Macroeconomics, the independence of central banks significantly increased after 1990, which could preclude the coordination between the fiscal and the monetary policies. The purpose of this paper is to consider the stabilizing...

What is the seigniorage-maximizing level of inflation? Four models formulae for the seigniorage maximizing inflation rate (SMIR) are compared. Two sticky-price models arrive at very different quantitative recommendations although both predict somewhat lower SMIRs than Cagan’s formula and...

This paper examines how the fixed exchange rate policy followed in Cyprus for more than 40 years helped to deliver price stability amid high growth rates and low unemployment, and contributed to the successful adoption of the euro. The paper identifies some critical elements for the success of...

La teoría austriaca del ciclo económico se fundamenta en mecanismosde transmisión monetaria para explicar los auges y las recesiones. Deacuerdo a los postulados austriacos, los mercados son procesos dinámicosde interacción entre los agentes económicos, en los cuales no se identificauna...

The optimal choice of a monetary policy instrument depends on how tight and transparent the available instruments are and on whether policymakers can commit to future policies. Tightness is always desirable; transparency is only if policymakers cannot commit. Interest rates, which can be made...

The equilibrium ramification of a balanced budget rule are scrutinized in a one sector growth model augmented with investment frictions and a non-separable utility function in consumption and leisure. Edgeworth-complementarity between consumption and labor is formulated so as to generate a...

The equilibrium ramification of a balanced budget rule are scrutinized in a one sector growth model augmented with investment frictions and a non-separable utility function in consumption and leisure. Edgeworth-complementarity between consumption and labor is formulated so as to generate a...

ResumenLa teoría austriaca del ciclo económico se fundamenta en mecanismos de transmisión monetaria para explicar los auges y las recesiones. De acuerdo a los postulados austriacos, los mercados son procesos dinámicos de interacción entre los agentes económicos, en los cuales no se...

Irving Fisher's encounter with the Quantity theory of Money began in the 1890s, during the debate about bimetallism, and reached its high point in 1911 with the publication of The Purchasing Power of Money. His most important refinement of the theory, derived from his recognition of bank...