Recent work on monetary policy has focused on the trade-o¤ between output volatility and in‡ation volatility. This literature is based largely on models of closed economies. Three conclusions about optimal policy characterize these models. First, the central bank faces an in‡ation-output gap volatility trade-o¤ only in the presence of cost-push shocks. Second, aggregate demand shocks should be ...

The term “risk channel of monetary policy” refers to the link between monetary policy and risk-taking behavior (Borio and Zhu 2012). According to this channel, changes in current or future central bank policies can cause changes in the perception of risk, which could lead to changes in economic activity through rebalancing of portfolio composition. For example, a central bank reaction function ...

Recent work on monetary policy has focused on the trade-off between output volatility and inflation volatility. This literature is based largely on models of closed economies. Three conclusions about optimal policy characterize these models. First, the central bank faces an inflation-output gap volatility trade-off only in the presence of cost-push shocks. Second, aggregate demand shocks should...

Understanding the impact of external shocks on stock markets returns and volatility is crucial for market participants as volatility is synonymous with risk. The focus of this paper is to determine whether the US monetary policy decisions influence the stock market returns and volatility in Egypt, Israel, and Turkey. Efficient markets react to new information; hence a greater response would be ...

We study the relationship between growth and variability in a DSGE model with nominal rigidities and growth driven by learning-by-doing. We show that this relationship may be positive or negative depending on the impulse source of fluctuations A key role is also played by the Frisch elasticity of labour supply and by institutional features of the labour market. Our general findings are that mon...

This paper investigates the sources of the substantial decrease in output growth volatility in the mid-1980s by identifying which of the structural parameters in a representative New Keynesian and Structural VAR models changed. Overturning conventional wisdom, we show that the Great Moderation was not only due to changes in shocks volatilities but also to changes in monetary policy parameters a...

It has been argued that (official) dollarization facilitates financial integration and a better performance of the domestic banking system. However, before adopting dollarization it is necessary a deep discussion on the pros and cons of this scheme. With a few exceptions, the advantages of dollarization have not been discussed in a dynamic general equilibrium framework, especially for partially...

inflation has always been an economic problem and different solutions have been proposed to control it. although it is said that “higher output lowers inflation rate” but it is true when other factors are constant. this study searches the answer to the following question: “what is the effect of inflation rate and output in a case that inflation rate and output growth has a volatility trend?” to...

This paper investigates the contribution of monetary policy to the changes in output growth and inflation dynamics in the US. We identify a policy shock and a policy rule in a timevarying coefficients VAR using robust sign restrictions. The transmission of policy shocks has been relatively stable. The variance of the policy shock has decreased over time, but policy shocks account for a small fr...