We study optimal monetary policy in a two-sector model. The conventional wisdom in the literature is that the monetary authority should optimally stabilize inflation in the sticky-price sector. We reassess this issue in a two sector economy with capital accumulation subject to adjustment costs....

Standard business cycle models often have difficulty matching salient stylized facts such as hump-shaped responses to shocks or persistence. This is mainly due to the lack of a strong endogenous propagation mechanism. In this paper we demonstrate that a real business cycle with a labor market...

It has been argued that the Great Inflation of the 1970s has been caused by a Federal Reserve policy that was not aggressive enough in combatting inflation. This led to a scenario where the U.S. economy operated under an indeterminate equilibrium with sunspot shocks becoming a driving force...