Each person's characteristics may influence that person's behaviors and outcomes. This study builds and uses a new database to estimate experts' performance and boldness based on their experience and characteristics. Our study classifies experts providing inflation forecasts based on their...

In this paper we examine the effect of monetary policy on the Israeli economy, and in particular on unemployment and the evolution of prices, for the period between 1990 and 1999, using the SVAR methodology. The four endogenous variables are the unemployment rate in deviations from its trend,...

Standard theories of price adjustment are based on the problem of a single-product firm, and therefore they may not be well suited to analyze price dynamics in the economy with multiproduct firms. To guide new theory, we study a unique dataset with comprehensive coverage of daily prices in large...

Le «nouveau keynésianisme» actuel néglige le rôle des aggrégats monétaires dans la détermination de l¿équilibre économique. On peut se poser des questions sur cette vision tant il est difficile d¿admettre que la monnaie serait une variable «passive» du système économique. En...

In the current New Keynesian literature, the role of monetary aggregates is generally neglected. Yet it’s hard to imagine money completely “passive” to the rest of the system. By entering real money balances in a non-separable utility function, we introduce an explicit role for money via...