Monetary Policy, Determinacy, and Learnability in a Two-Block World Economy |
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| Authors: | JAMES BULLARD ERIC SCHALING† |
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| Institution: | James Bullard; is the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (E-mail: ). Eric Schaling; is a Professor at Wits Business School, Johannesburg, and is also affiliated with CentER (Center for Economic Research) at the Tilburg University and CDMA University of St. Andrews (E-mail: ). |
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| Abstract: | We study how determinacy and learnability of worldwide rational expectations equilibrium may be affected by monetary policy in a simple, two-country, New Keynesian framework under both fixed and flexible exchange rates. We find that open economy considerations may alter conditions for determinacy and learnability relative to closed economy analyses and that new concerns can arise in the analysis of classic topics such as the desirability of exchange rate targeting and monetary policy cooperation. |
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| Keywords: | E58 E61 F31 F41 |
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