Risk-free rates have been falling since the 1980s while the return on capital has not. We analyze these trends in a calibrated OLG model with recursive preferences, designed to encompass many of the "usual suspects" cited in the debate on secular stagnation. Declining labor force and...

This paper determines conditions for the existence of a unique rational expectations equilibrium-determinacy-in a monetary policy switching economy. We depart from the existing literature by providing such conditions considering all bounded equilibria. We then apply these conditions to a new...

Los bancos centrales de varios países avanzados utilizan rangos, o bandas, en torno a su objetivo de inflación para formular su estrategia de política monetaria. La adopción de estos rangos ha sido propuesta por algunos responsables de política monetaria en el contexto de las revisiones de...

In this paper, we solve a large class of non-linear rational expectations models with regime switching, i.e. recurring shifts in parameters. The regime-switches and the shocks may follow state-dependent probability distributions. Using a perturbation approach, we first prove that sufficient...

The current financial crisis has revived the interest for monitoring both monetary and credit developments. Over the past two decades, consistent with the adoption of inflation targeting strategies by a growing number of central banks and the development of New Keynesian models for which...