Macroeconometric policy simulation models allow for an analysis, and, above all, for a quantification of the effects different economic policies have on the various variables that represent the economy. Despite the seminal "Lucas critique" levelled against them, these models are still widely...

Structural reforms in the liquidity trap need not be deflationary. This paper develops a simple framework to study the role that key characteristics of Japan's labor and product markets-labor-market duality and weak corporate governance-play in generating unfavorable wage-price dynamics. The...

We investigate the possibility to reflate an economy experiencing a long-lasting zero lower bound episode with subdued or negative inflation by imposing a minimum level of wage inflation. Our proposed income policy relies on the same mechanism behind past disinflationary policies, but it works...

A lively debate is underway about replacing Canada's 2 percent inflation target with a target for lower inflation or a target for the price level itself when Canada's inflation-control arrangement expires at the end of 2011. Either change could reduce uncertainty about changes in the value of...

Recent hikes and fluctuations in global commodity prices in 2007-11 have raised many issues. The present analysis is an attempted advancement to identify appropriate associations to volatile commodity prices by advancing existing analysis of S&P GSCI commodity spot price index is used as a proxy...

This paper studies the efficacy of discretionary stabilization policies, when household heterogeneity, business cycles and long-run growth interact. Consistent with empirical evidence, we develop a unified heterogeneous agent New Keynesian growth framework in which: (i) growth arises from...

In Deutschland und der Europäischen Währungsunion (EWU) entwickelte sich ab 2021 eine kostengetriebene Inflationswelle, die von steigenden Energiekosten und Nahrungsmittelpreisen sowie Störungen in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten vorangetrieben wird. Führt der kräftige Preisniveauschub zu...

Die Europäische Zentralbank hat im Dezember 2021 mit einer 'Normalisierung' ihres geldpolitischen Kurses begonnen. Anders als die Federal Reserve kann sie aber dem Preisschock auf den internationalen Energiemärkten nicht mit einer entschiedenen Restriktionspolitik begegnen, weil die...

Food prices increased significantly in 2007 - 08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The Ethiopian government released emergency food grain reserves, imported and distributed wheat at subsidized price, banned the export of staple cereals, and removed value added and...

The implementation of economic reforms under new economic policies in India was associated with a paradigmatic shift in monetary and fiscal policy. While monetary policies were solely aimed at "price stability" in the neoliberal regime, fiscal policies were characterized by the objective of...