In this paper Friedman (1953) and Mundell's (1968) position favouring flexible over alternative exchange rate regimes is reassessed in the context of international financial market integration...

Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage nach dem geeigneten operativenZiel der Geldpolitik, wenn Zentralbanken zwar das Zinsniveau unmittelbar undkontinuierlich (z.B. täglich) beobachten können, Daten zu Preisniveau undProduktionsniveau jedoch nur periodisch (z.B. monats- oder...

Empirical evidence suggests that a monetary shock induces the exchange rate to overshoot its long-run level. The estimated magnitude and timing of the overshooting, however, varies across studies. This paper generates delayed overshooting in a new Keynesian model of a small open economy by...

Time-variation in disagreement about inflation expectations is a stylized fact in surveys, but little is known on how disagreement interacts with the efficacy of monetary policy. This paper fills this gap in providing theoretical predictions of monetary policy shocks for different levels of...

Survey data on inflation expectations show that: (i) private sector forecasts and central bank forecasts are not fully aligned and (ii) private sector forecasters disagree about inflation expectations. To reconcile these two facts we introduce dispersed information in a New Keynesian model,...

We study how households adjust their medium-term inflation expectations under the new ECB strategy. We find that survey respondents make little difference between the previous strategy of targeting inflation rates close to but below 2% and the new strategy with a symmetric 2% target. Yet,...

We study how households adjust their medium-term inflation expectations under the new ECB inflation targeting strategy. Survey respondents make little difference between the previous strategy of targeting inflation rates close to but below 2% and the new strategy with a 2% point target....