Past empirical research on monetary policy in open economies has found evidence of the ‘delayed overshooting puzzle’ and the ‘forward discount puzzle’. We revisit the effects of monetary policy on exchange rates by applying Uhlig's [Uhlig, H., 2005a. What are the effects of monetary policy...

In this dissertation, two questions concerning monetary policy under the Taylor rule have been addressed. The first question is on, under the Taylor rule, whether a central bank should be responsible for both bank supervision and monetary policy or whether the two tasks should be exercised by...

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...

Since commercial banks play important roles in the financial markets, it isimportant to evaluate whether banks operate efficiently. Moreover, given increasedcompetition from non-bank financial institutions, commercial banks should operatemore efficiently than they did previously. Commercial...

We construct a measure of Euro area cyclical effficiency, following the approach developed in Galí, Gertler and López-Salido (2002).Our measure -wich we call “the gap”- corresponds to the inverse of price over social marginal cost. Here we present a time series of this gap for the Euro...

Algunos trabajos han mostrado que la efectividad de la política monetaria depende, en gran medida, de las expectativas que el Mercado tiene de las futuras acciones de política. Este documento propone un marco econométrico que determina el efecto del ciclo económico sobre estas futuras...

This paper examines the causal links between productivity growth and two price series given by domestic inflation and the price of mineral products in Australia's mining sector for the period 1968/1969 to 1997/1998. The study also uses a stochastic translog cost frontier to generate improved...

This paper reinvestigates the energy consumption-GDP growth nexus in a panel error correction model using data on 20 net energy importers and exporters from 1971 to 2002. Among the energy exporters, there was bidirectional causality between economic growth and energy consumption in the developed...

El proceso de internacionalización que muchos bancos españoles han emprendido en años recientes ha resultado en la necesidad de un seguimiento más cercano de las economías en las que están presentes, especialmente para un organismo supervisor como el Banco de España. En este trabajo se...