May 6, 2011. Presented at Arkansas Day with the Bank Commissioner, Little Rock, Ark.

May 24, 2011. Presented at the 2011 Joint Meeting of the Cape Girardeau and Jackson Rotary Clubs, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

May 6, 2011. Presented at Arkansas Day with the Bank Commissioner, Little Rock, Ark.

May 24, 2011. Presented at the 2011 Joint Meeting of the Cape Girardeau and Jackson Rotary Clubs, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Conventional investigations of the "best" intermediate target variable for monetary policy have used a single criterion: the best fit between the behavior of an aggregate and that of some goal variable such as nominal spending or the aggregate price level. Ignored in this type of study, however,...

In the P-star model the price level is determined by the money stock per unit of potential output and the long-run equilibrium level of the velocity of money. This article applies this model to Austria. Problems in identifying permanent shocks to potential output and/or velocity lead to the...

This paper finds that standard asset pricing models fail to explain the significantly positive delta hedging errors from writing options on foreign exchange futures. Foreign exchange volatility does influence stock returns, however. The volatility of the JPY/USD exchange rate predicts the time...

This paper shows that incomplete information can be a rich source of sunspots equilibria. This is demonstrated in a standard dynamic general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition … la Dixit-Stiglitz. In the absence of fundamental shocks, the model has a unique certainty (fundamental)...