• Misallocation and the Recovery of Manufacturing TFP After a Financial Crisis 

      Chen, Kaiji; Irarrazabal, Alfonso (Working Papers;1/2013, Working paper, 2013)
      The Chilean economy experienced a decade of sustained growth in aggregate out-put and productivity after the 1982 financial crisis. This paper analyzes the effects of resource misallocation on total factor productivity ...
    • Mismatch Shocks and Unemployment During the Great Recession 

      Furlanetto, Francesco; Groshenny, Nicolas (Working Papers;16/2013, Working paper, 2013)
      We investigate the macroeconomic consequences of fluctuations in the effectiveness of the labor-market matching process with a focus on the Great Recession. We conduct our analysis in the context of an estimated medium-scale ...
    • Mixed Frequency Structural Models: Estimation, and Policy Analysis 

      Foroni, Claudia; Marcellino, Massimiliano (Working Papers;15/2013, Working paper, 2013)
      In this paper we show analytically, with simulation experiments and with actual data that a mismatch between the time scale of a DSGE model and that of the time series data used for its estimation generally creates ...
    • Mixed Frequency Structural VARs 

      Foroni, Claudia; Marcellino, Massimiliano (Working Papers;1/2014, Working paper, 2014)
      A mismatch between the time scale of a structural VAR (SVAR) model and that of the time series data used for its estimation can have serious consequences for identification, estimation and interpretation of the impulse ...
    • Model Selection for Monetary Policy Analysis – Importance of Empirical Validity 

      Akram, Q. Farooq; Nymoen, Ragnar (Working Papers;13/2006, Working paper, 2006)
      We investigate the importance of employing a valid model for monetary policy analysis. Specifically, we investigate the economic significance of differences in specification and empirical validity of models. We consider ...
    • Model Specification and Inflation Forecast Uncertainty 

      Bårdsen, Gunnar; Jansen, Eilev S.; Nymoen, Ragnar (Working Papers;6/2000, Working paper, 2000)
      Three classes of inflation models are discussed: Standard Phillips curves, New Keynesian Phillips curves and Incomplete Competition models. Their relative merits in explaining and forecasting inflation are investigated ...
    • Modelling Inflation in the Euro Area 

      Jansen, Eilev S. (Working Papers;10/2004, Working paper, 2004)
      The paper presents an incomplete competition model (ICM), where inflation is determined jointly with unit labour cost growth. The ICM is estimated on data for the Euro area and evaluated against existing models, i.e. the ...
    • Modelling Occasionally Binding Constraints Using Regime-Switching 

      Binning, Andrew; Maih, Junior (Working Papers;23/2017, Working paper, 2017)
      Occasionally binding constraints are part of the economic landscape: for instance recent experience with the global financial crisis has highlighted the gravity of the lower bound constraint on interest rates; mortgagors ...
    • Monetary and Macroprudential Policy with Multi-Period Loans 

      Brzoza-Brzezina, Michał; Gelain, Paolo; Kolasa, Marcin (Working Papers;16/2014, Working paper, 2014)
      We study the implications of multi-period loans for monetary and macroprudential policy, considering several realistic modifications - variable vs. fixed loan rates, non-negativity constraint on newly granted loans, and ...
    • Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: To Respond or Not? 

      Akram, Q. Farooq; Bårdsen, Gunnar; Eitrheim, Øyvind (Working Papers;9/2005, Working paper, 2005)
      We investigate whether there is a case for asset prices in interest rates rules within a small econometric model of the Norwegian economy, modeling the interdependence of the real economy, credit and three classes of ...
    • Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Interactions in a Small Open Economy 

      Bjørnland, Hilde C. (Working Papers;16/2005, Working paper, 2005)
      This paper analyses the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy in a small open economy like Norway through structural VARs, paying particular attention to the interdependence between the monetary policy stance and ...
    • Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Overshooting: Dornbusch Was Right After All 

      Bjørnland, Hilde C. (Working Papers;9/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      Dornbusch’s exchange rate overshooting hypothesis is a central building block in international macroeconomics. Yet, empirical studies of monetary policy have typically found exchange rate effects that are inconsistent with ...
    • Monetary Policy and Financial Stability in the Long Run 

      Cao, Jin; Chollete, Lorán (Working Papers;21/2013, Working paper, 2013)
      Most theoretical central bank models use short horizons and focus on a single tradeoff. However, in reality, central banks play complex, long-horizon games and face more than one tradeoff. We account for these issues in a ...
    • Monetary Policy and the Illusionary Exchange Rate Puzzle 

      Bjørnland, Hilde C. (Working Papers;11/2005, Working paper, 2005)
      Dornbusch’s exchange rate overshooting hypothesis is a central building block in international macroeconomics. Yet, empirical studies of monetary policy have typically found exchange rate effects that are inconsistent with ...
    • Monetary Policy Decisions – Comparing Theory and "Inside" Information from MPC Members 

      Apel, Mikael; Claussen, Carl Andreas; Gerlach-Kristen, Petra; Lennartsdotter, Petra; Røisland, Øistein (Working Papers;3/2013, Working paper, 2013)
      We analyze the influence of the Taylor rule on US monetary policy by estimating the policy preferences of the Fed within a DSGE framework. The policy preferences are represented by a standard loss function, extended with ...
    • Monetary Policy in Real Time 

      Qvigstad, Jan F. (Working Papers;1/2001, Working paper, 2001)
      The interest rate is set by the central bank with a view to securing a nominal anchor for the economy in the long term. The setting of interest rates is based on evaluations of economic trends and the balance of risks. In ...
    • Monetary Policy Predictability in the Euro Area: An International Comparison 

      Wilhelmsen, Bjørn-Roger; Zaghini, Andrea (Working Papers;7/2005, Working paper, 2005)
      The paper evaluates the ability of market participants to anticipate monetary policy decisions in the euro area and in 13 other countries. First, by looking at the magnitude and the volatility of the changes in the money ...
    • Monetary Policy Rules for an Open Economy 

      Batini, Nicoletta; Harrison, Richard; Millard, Stephen P. (Working Papers;4/2001, Working paper, 2001)
      The most popular simple rules for the interest rate, due to Taylor (1993a) and Henderson and McKibbin (1993), are both meant to inform monetary policy in economies that are closed. On the other hand, their main open economy ...
    • Monetary policy spillover to small open economies: Is the transmission different under low interest rates? 

      Cao, Jin; Dinger, Valeriya; Gómez, Tomás; Gric, Zuzana; Hodula, Martin; Jara, Alejandro; Juelsrud, Ragnar; Liaudinskas, Karolis; Malovaná, Simona; Terajima, Yaz (Working Paper;12/2021, Working paper, 2021)
      We explore the impact of low and negative monetary policy rates in core world economies on bank lending in four small open economies – Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic and Norway – using confidential bank-level data. Our ...
    • Monetary Policy Under the Gold Standard - Examining the Case of Norway, 1893-1914 

      Øksendal, Lars Fredrik (Working Papers;14/2008, Working paper, 2008)
      This essay examines Norwegian monetary policy under the final decades of the classical international gold standard regime prior to World War I. While the evidence clearly demonstrates that the commitment to gold convertibility ...