Expectation traps in a new Keynesian open economy model

The ‘ New Keynesian ’ Phillips curve : closed economy versus open economy

The paper extends Woodford’s [Optimizing models with nominal rigidities, Chapter 3 of Interest and prices: foundations of a theory of monetary policy, Princeton University, 2000; unpublished manuscript] analysis of the closed economy Phillips curve to an open economy with both commodity trade and capital mobility. We show that consumption smoothing, which comes with the opening of the capital m...

The role of net foreign assets in a New Keynesian small open economy model

This paper develops a small open economy, sticky-price model that determines a unique, stable long-run asset position for households as function of their incentive to anticipate or postpone consumption and labor effort across periods. This is accomplished by adopting an overlapping-generations structure in which new households with no assets enter the economy in each period. The same characteri...

A Behavioral New Keynesian Model

This paper presents a framework for analyzing how bounded rationality a↵ects monetary and fiscal policy. The model is a tractable and parsimonious enrichment of the widely-used New Keynesian model – with one main new parameter, which quantifies how poorly agents understand future policy and its impact. That myopia parameter, in turn, a↵ects the power of monetary and fiscal policy in a microfoun...

The Effect of Zakat on Consumption Stability in the Iranian Economy in the form of the New Keynesian DSGE Model

Household Consumption Decisions Have a Significant Impact on The Behavior of Macroeconomic Variables in The Short and Long Run. One of The Factors Affecting the Consumption of Households in an Islamic Society Is Zakat, Which Is Established in Islam to Combat Poverty and Acts as a Tool to Redistribute Income and Wealth from The Rich to The Poor and Plays an Important Role In Ensuring Justice and...

The New Keynesian Model