The recent financial crisis has highlighted the interconnectedness between macroeconomic and financial stability and has raised the question of whether and how to combine the corresponding main policy instruments (interest rate and bank-capital requirements). This paper offers a characterization...

This paper incorporates banks as well as frictions in the market for bank capital into a standard New Keynesian model and considers the positive and normative implications of various financial shocks. It shows that the frictions matter significantly for the effects of the shocks and the...

The recent financial crisis has highlighted the interconnectedness between macroeconomic and financial stability and has raised the question of whether and how to combine the corresponding main policy instruments (interest rate and bank-capital requirements). This paper offers a characterization...

We study the role of monetary policy when asset-price bubbles may form due to herd behavior in investment in an asset whose return is uncertain. To that aim, we build a simple general-equilibrium model whose agents are households, entrepreneurs, and a central bank. Entrepreneurs receive private...

This paper designs, for a broad class of rational-expectations dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium models, interest-rate rules which not only ensure the local determinacy of the targeted equilibrium within the neighbourhood of the targeted steady state, but also prevent the economy from...

This paper examines whether reputation concerns can induce the central bank to implement the time-inconsistent optimal monetary policy in a standard New Keynesian model. The forward-looking nature of this model is in this respect interesting on two accounts: first, it worsens the...

La table ronde d’un colloque co-organisé par la Banque de France a porté sur les similitudes et les différences entre la Banque centrale européenne et le Système fédéral de réserve en termes de réactivité, d’objectifs et de stratégie de politique monétaire.

Le 5ème symposium international de la Banque de France a porté sur les effets de la globalisation sur l’inflation et les récentes turbulences financières, ainsi que sur leurs éventuelles implications pour la conduite de la politique monétaire.

Le cadre de référence, dit « néo-keynésien », met en relief le rôle des anticipations dans la transmission de la politique monétaire. L’article présente les principaux problèmes de crédibilité susceptibles de se poser, illustrés par l’expérience de diverses banques centrales.

The round-table discussion at a conference co-organised by the Banque de France addresses the similarities and disparities between the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve System in terms of monetary policy reactivity, objectives and strategy.