Monetary Policy in Sudden Stop-Prone Economies

Optimal Monetary Policy in a ‘Sudden Stop’

During the Asian financial crises, interest rates were raised immediately, and then reduced sharply. We describe an environment in which this is the optimal monetary policy. ∗Northwestern University and Tilburg University. †Northwestern University, and NBER. ‡International Monetary Fund. §Braggion thanks the European Central Bank-Research Department for its hospitality. Christiano is grateful f...

Nber Working Paper Series a New Dilemma: Capital Controls and Monetary Policy in Sudden Stop Economies

We thank seminar participants at the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, the UBC macro-lunch, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank for comments. Devereux thanks SSHRC, and the Royal Bank of Canada for financial support as well as support from ESRC award ES/1024174/1. Young thanks the financial support and hospitality of the HKIMR and the Bankard Fund for Political Econo...

Government Policy in Monetary Economies

I study how the general and specific details of a micro founded monetary framework affect the determination of policy when the government has limited commitment. The conduct of policy depends on the interaction between the incentive to smooth distortions intertemporally and a time-consistency problem. In equilibrium, fiscal and monetary policies are distortionary, but long-run policy is not aff...

Monetary Policy and Unemployment in Open Economies

After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not a¤ect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively a¤ects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate unemployment decreases workers’subjective well...

Monetary Policy Challenges in Emerging Markets: Sudden Stop, Liability Dollarization, and Lender of Last Resort