User costs of housing are a major part of a household’s expenditure.I empirically investigate the heterogeneous impact of an unanticipatedexpansionary monetary policy on housing markets and householdtenurial decision by exploiting the user cost of housing channel.Drawing on a Swiss household...

From regional redistribution through mortgage markets to the monetary policy effects on local house price dynamics, the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) has been a powerful reminder that money and credit matter for the evolution of the space economy. In addition to the spatially uneven impact of...

Monetary policy is known to have heterogeneous regional economic effects. Building on the notion that production factors and investment opportunities are locally concentrated, we show that firms partly navigate the uncertainty associated with monetary contraction by altering the scope of their...

This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...

Central banks around the world are tightening monetary policy in response to a global surge in inflation not seen since the 1970s. This synchronization of global interest rate hikes and further increases expected by markets, illustrated in figure 1, have raised concerns about adverse...

Central banks around the world are tightening monetary policy in response to a global surge in inflation not seen since the 1970s. This synchronization of global interest rate hikes and further increases expected by markets, illustrated in figure 1, have raised concerns about adverse...