Because the Federal Reserve is responsible for controlling the value of money, economic policymakers are very concerned with forecasting the public's demand for money. Inflation is one of several factors that have made forecasting the demand for money increasingly difficult over the past fifteen...

We introduce “financial imperfections” - asymmetric net wealth positions, incomplete risksharing, and interest rate spread across member countries - in a prototypical two-country currency union model and study implications for monetary policy transmission mechanism and optimal policy. In...