Recent evidence suggests that consumption rises in response to an increase in government spending. That finding cannot be asily reconciled with existing optimizing business cycle models. We extend the standard new Keynesian model to allow for the presence of rule-of-thumb consumers. We show how...

This paper explores the role of monetary policy in an open economy in an environment of endogenous portfolio choice. The model is simple enough to allow solutions for optimal portfolios to be derived analytically for a range of different asset market environments. We explore the impact of...