We provide empirical evidence of a novel liquidity-based transmission mechanism through which monetary policy influences asset markets, develop a dynamic stochastic monetary equilibrium model of this mechanism, and use it to assess the ability of the quantitative theory to match the evidence.

In this paper we study the monetary and fiscal policy making in a monetary union when authorities face asymmetries in the countries constructing this monetary union. We analyze this problem in an asymmetric environment using a two-country theoretical model and by introducing two alternative types of national asymmetries : asymmetric shocks and the asymmetric transmission mechanism. The central ...

We develop a general framework to examine how the presence of a monetary transmission mechanism shapes aggregate responses to shocks and the effects of monetary policy. Our framework nests two leading monetary models: a text-book New Keynesian setting and a setting where small transactions costs associated with adjustments in households’ money balances lead to an evolving distribution of money ...

the subject of monetary policy orientation and tailoring a framework within which the credibility and desirability of the policies and the policy makers is enhanced, while the most important goal of policies, i.e reaching to and preserving a low and stable inflation rate is achieved, has recently been a controversial issue for a large number of economists. in fact the necessity arised since the...

Recent research provides evidence of important changes in the U.S. economic environment over the last 40 years. This appears to be associated with an alteration of the monetary transmission mechanism. In this paper we investigate the implications for the evolution of monetary policy effectiveness. Using an identiÞed VAR over the preand post-1980 periods we Þrst provide evidence of a reduction i...

New Neoclassical Synthesis models equate the instrument of monetary policy to the implied CCAPM rate arising from a standard model with power utility. This paper identifies monetary policy shocks using a multi country dataset and examines the movement of money market and implied CCAPM rates. We find that an increase in the nominal interest rate leads to a fall in the implied CCAPM rate. Incorpo...

a r t i c l e i n f o In this paper, we develop a monetary-fiscal game in a monetary union with uncertainty due to imperfect transparency about the central bank's preferences. The objective is to investigate the macroeconomic effects of this uncertainty by explicitly taking into account the role of the monetary policy transmission mechanism. We first consider the case of symmetric monetary tran...