The paper reconsiders an influential model by Blanchard (1981) that extends the textbook ISLM framework by including among the financial assets, besides money and short-term bonds, also long-term bonds and equities. Aggregate demand is supposed to vary with Tobin's (average) q, rather than the...

This paper demonstrates, contrary to what has been shown recently, that demand pressure, besides differentiated cost-pressure, matters both in the labor market and the market for goods in the determination of wage and price inflation. vVe consider from the theoretical perspective and estimate...

In this paper we extend an integrated closed-economy macrodynamic model to account for a large open economy in a currency area with fixed nominal exchange rates between the currencies. The major issues are the effectiveness and macrodynamic effects of monetary policy for countries in a pegged or...