New model revolutionizes macroeconomics teaching, replacing traditional approach.
The article presents a new model for analyzing how a central bank in a small open economy responds to various shocks. This model replaces the traditional Mundell-Fleming model with a simplified New Keynesian approach. By incorporating rational expectations in the foreign exchange market and central bank, the model shows how exchange rate expectations influence the central bank's decisions. The central bank in this model targets domestic inflation, but the analysis can be modified for a CPI inflation target.