We examine exchange rate pass-through into aggregate import prices for several industrialized countries in view of Taylor's (2000) suggestion that the degree of pass-through is dependent on importing country inflation. Extending the standard mark-up pricing model under monopolistic competition...

The role of stock and currency market information in a forward-looking Taylor rule is analysed for monthly data from 13 OECD countries and the U.S. during the years 1988-2012. Based on a simple set of partial equilibrium conditions we fi nd that the stock market information in the form of...

In this paper we augment the famous Fisher hypothesis by introducing foreign interest rate and exchange rate variables to a tradional Fisherian test equation for the Finnish money market interest rates. Theoretically this augmentation is based on the use of uncovered interest rate parity for...