This paper offers the analysis ofCzech monetary policy effectiveness during 1993-1996, which was based on the monetarist theory reconunendations. Also, the reasons for inflation targeting policy irnplementation by the Czech National Bank (CNB) are reviewed. In order to accomplish these goals, we...

I model a number of imperfections in financial intermediation that have implications for real economic activity in a production economy with technological risk. Partially opaque firms are financed by both debt and insider equity. Banks have market power over borrowers. There can be a prior bias...

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model for the positive and normative analysis of macroprudential policies. Optimizing financial intermediaries allocate their scarce net worth together with funds raised from saving households across two lending activities, mortgage and corporate lending....

The impact of collateral diversification by non-financial firms on systemic risk is studied in a general equilibrium model with standard production functions and mixed debt-equity financing. Systemic risk comes about as soon as firms diversify their collateral by holding claims on a big...

The paper introduces a model of bid/ask price formation in an imperfectly centralized forex dealership market in continuous time. The dealers have costly access to best quotes while interpreting signals from the joint dealer-customer order flow and deciding upon their own price quotes and...

The paper introduces a transition from an exchange rate target zone to the free float in a dynamic general equilibrium model of production, trade and consumption under diffusion uncertainty in a small open economy. The loss of credibility and subsequent collapse of the target zone is modeled by...