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Monetary and Macro-Prudential Policy, Ph.D.

Prof. Ester Faia

Chair in Monetary and Fiscal Policy,

Goethe University Frankfurt

Fall semester 2014

The exam will consist in a term paper which shall be handed prior to the beginning of the

summer-semester.

1. The macro model with credit frictions in closed and open economy.

References:

1. Bernanke, Ben S., Gertler, Mark and Gilchrist, Simon, (1999). "The FinancialAccelerator in a Quantitative Business Cycle Framework," Handbook of

Macroeconomics, in: J. B. Taylor & M. Woodford (ed.), Handbook of Macroeconomics,edition 1, volume 1, chapter 21, pages 1341-1393 Elsevier.

2. Faia, Ester. (2007) "Finance and International Business Cycles".  Journal of Monetary

 Economics, Volume 54:4.

2. Collateral and margin constraints.

References:

1. Aiyagari, S. Rao and Gertler, Mark, 1991. "Asset returns with transactions costs anduninsured individual risk,"  Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(3), pages

311-331, June.

2.Kiyotaki, Nobuhiro and Moore, John, 1997. "Credit Cycles."  Journal of Political

 Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 105(2), pages 211-48, April.

3. Banks runs in macro models.

References:

2. Angeloni, I. and E. Faia, “Capital Regulation and Monetary Policy with Fragile

Banks.” Journal of Monetary Economics, April 2013.

4. Macro-prudential policies

References:

1. Osiński, J., Seal, K. and Hoogduin, L. (2013), Macro-prudential and Micro-prudentialPolicies: Toward Cohabitation, IMF.

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2. Saurina, J. (2009). Dynamic provisioning: The case of Spain. The World Bank. Note

 Number 7, July.

3. Faia, E. and I. Schnabel, 2014, The Road from Micro to Macro-prudential policies.

5. Labour market frictions in macro models: search and matching, efficiency wages,

unions.

References:

1. Krause, Michael U. and Lubik, Thomas A., (2007). "The (ir)relevance of real wagerigidity in the New Keynesian model with search frictions."  Journal of Monetary

 Economics, vol. 54(3), pages 706-727, April.

2. Faia, Ester, (2008) "Optimal Monetary Policy Rules with Labour Market Frictions".

 Journal of Economic Dynamic and Control.

3. Faia, Ester, (2009) "Ramsey Monetary Policy with Labour Market Frictions".  Journalof Monetary Economics.

6. Heterogenous firms and market structures in macro models.

References:

1.Rotemberg, Julio J & Woodford, Michael, 1992. "Oligopolistic Pricing and the Effects

of Aggregate Demand on Economic Activity." Journal of Political Economy, vol. 100(6), pages 1153-1207, December.

2. Faia, E., 2012. "Oligopolistic Competition and Optimal Monetary Policy".  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 36, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 1760-

1774.

7. Optimal monetary policy in a new open economy model.

References:

1.Jordi Galí and Tommaso Monacelli, (2005). "Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate

Volatility in a Small Open Economy."  Review of Economic Studies, vol. 72(3), pages707-734, 07.