The New-Keynesian Approach to Understanding the Economy -- Michael Woodford’s Contributions to Monetary Economics -- The New-Keynesian Approach to Monetary Policy Analysis: Lessons and New Directions -- The New-Keynesian Approach in Forecasting and Monetary Policy Design -- The Case for...

The German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) submitted an order for referral to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in 2014, asking it to clarify the compatibility of the “Outright Monetary Transactions” (OMT)-Programme with European Union law. The OMT-Programme...

Am 26. September 2021 wurde der 20. Bundestag gewählt. Auf die Abgeordneten und die neue Bundesregierung kommen große Aufgaben zu. Demografie, Klimawandel und Digitalisierung sind drei zentrale Herausforderungen, die es in der neuen Legislaturperiode anzupacken und nachhaltig zu bewältigen...

Abstract Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This paper studies the optimal monetary policy in the presence of uncertainty...

In this paper, we examine the cost of insurance against model uncertainty for the Euro area considering four alternative reference models, all of which are used for policy-analysis at the ECB. We find that maximal insurance across this model range in terms of a Minimax policy comes at moderate...

In this paper, we study the effectiveness of monetary policy in a severe recession and deflation when nominal interest rates are bounded at zero. We compare two alternative proposals for ameliorating the effect of the zero bound: an exchange-rate peg and price-level targeting. We conduct this...