We study equilibrium determinacy in a New-Keynesian model where the Central Bank responds to asset prices growth. Unlike Taylor-type rules that react to asset prices, the proposed alternative does not harm dynamic stability and in certain cases promotes determinacy by inducing interest-rate inertia.

Recent literature has reported situations in which discretion dominates timeless perspective in the presence of elements that reduce the slope of the New Keynesian Phillips curve. Considering a model-consistent welfare metric inhibits this mechanism in the standard New Keynesian framework.

This paper investigates the distributional properties of TFP growth rates for countries in the G7 group. Our findings lend support to the hypothesis that multifactor productivity shocks can be plausibly fitted by a symmetric non-Gaussian stable distribution model. This leads to non-negligible...