Policymakers do not always follow a simple rule for setting policy interest rates for various reasons. Thus their behavior can be represented by a standard Taylor type policy rule amended with an additional variable representing an ad hoc factor. Consequently, ignoring the presence of the ad hoc...

In this paper we evaluate how various investment decisions explain the macroeconomic dynamics of European transition countries. We introduce quality investment decisions into a model with other two standard investment margins assumed in the advanced trade literature, i.e., investment in new...

In this paper we develop a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model by means of which we seek to explain the long-run path of a transition economy. The model's novel feature is the inclusion of quality investment in the standard framework of applied general equilibrium two-country models....

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...

The paper studies dynamic equilibria in international financial markets with consumption and portfolio optimizing agents. The arising stochastic dymanic optimization problems with state variable (in particular: liquidity) constraints are analyzed by means of the adjoint/Euler equation for the...

The paper studies the parity conditions between assets denominated in different currencies, traded in a wellintegrated segment of the international capital market, and derives the consequences for the exchange rate expectations. The main objective is to assess the uncovered asset return parity...