At first glance, the reader may think that there is little connection between the empirical study of Bordo, Humpage, and Schwartz of the effect of foreign exchange market interventions by the Federal Reserve during 1973–1995 and the Glocker and Towbin quantitative DSGE model of reserve requirements in a small open economy with financial frictions.1 However, there are key links. Each study exami...

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R ecent developments in open-economy macroeconomics have progressed under the paradigm of nominal price rigidities, where monetary disturbances are the main source of fluctuations. Following developments in closed-economy models, new open-economy models have combined price rigidities and market imperfections in a fully microfounded intertemporal general equilibrium setup. This framework has bee...

The paper develops a simple stochastic new open economy macroeconomic model based on sticky nominal wages. Explicit solution of the wage-setting problem under uncertainty allows one to analyze the effects of the monetary regime on welfare, expected output, and the expected terms of trade. Despite the potential interplay between imperfections due to sticky wages and monopoly, the optimal monetar...

The small open economy model with incomplete asset markets features a steady-state that depends on initial conditions and equilibrium dynamics that possess a random walk component. A number of modifications to the standard model have been proposed to induce stationarity. This paper presents a quantitative comparison of these alternative approaches. Five different specifications are considered: ...

California has embarked on a bold experiment in trying to reduce carbon emissions without causing undue harm to the state’s economy. The goal is made more difficult by the State’s inability to erect protective tariffs to restrict imports from states and countries without costly carbon regulations. Without coordinated international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, this is the same prob...