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Cosmin L. Ilut

Professor of Economics
Economics
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097
238 Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Scholarly editions


Learning, confidence, and business cycles

Scholarly edition · January 1, 2021 We argue that information accumulation provides a quantitatively successful propagation mechanism that challenges and empirically improves on the conventional New Keynesian models with many nominal and real rigidities. In particular, we build a tractable h ... Full text Cite

Paralyzed by Fear: Rigid and Discrete Pricing Under Demand Uncertainty

Scholarly edition · September 1, 2020 We propose a new theory of price rigidity based on firms' Knightian uncertainty about their competitive environment. This uncertainty has two key implications. First, firms learn about the shape of their demand function from past observations of quantities ... Full text Cite

Ambiguity aversion: Implications for the uncovered interest rate parity puzzle

Scholarly edition · July 1, 2012 High interest rate currencies tend to appreciate in the future relative to low interest rate currencies instead of depreciating as uncovered interest parity (UIP) predicts. I construct a model of exchange rate determination in which ambiguity-averse agents ... Full text Cite

Monetary Policy and Stock Market Booms

Scholarly edition · September 24, 2010 Cite