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Interest rate rules for monetary policy and tax rules for fiscal policy change stochastically between two regimes. In the first regime monetary policy follows the Taylor principle and taxes rise strongly with increases in the real value of government debt; in the second regime the Taylor...
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We study unofficial dollarization, i.e., the use of foreign money alongside the domestic currency, in an environment … medium of exchange) or official dollarization (where the domestic currency is abandoned altogether and replaced with the US …
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From 1863-1914, banks in the U.S. could issue notes subject to full collateral, a per-period tax on outstanding notes, redemption of notes on demand, and a clearing fee per issued note cleared through the Treasury. The system failed to satisfy a purported arbitrage condition; i.e., the yield on...
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We study unofficial dollarization, i.e., the use of foreign money alongside the domestic currency, in an environment … medium of exchange) or official dollarization (where the domestic currency is abandoned altogether and replaced with the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005130227
From 1863-1914, banks in the U.S. could issue notes subject to full collateral, a per-period tax on outstanding notes, redemption of notes on demand, and a clearing fee per issued note cleared through the Treasury. The system failed to satisfy a purported arbitrage condition; i.e., the yield on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342293
This paper provides a tractable search model with divisible money that encompasses the two frameworks currently used in … a representative household, but they share information so financial contracts are feasible. Money is essential in the … money holdings is non-degenerate and monetary transfers have distributional effects. However, neither quasi …
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The effects of monetary policy depend significantly on the capacity of the Central Bank to affect market interest rates by managing liquidity. Therefore, it comes out as an important issue to determine the degree of flexibility of lending and deposit rates to changes in policy rates. In this...
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What are the benefits provided by a payment system? What are the tradeoffs in public versus private payment systems and in restricted versus open payments arrangements? Modern payment systems encompass a variety of institutional designs with varying degrees of counterparty protection. We develop...
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In this paper, we study the statistical relationship between money and prices in Argentina during the last quarter of … into two sub-samples: 1976 to 1989 and 1991 to 2001, as these sub-samples represent different exchange rate regimes. We … then apply a filter similar to that of Lucas (1980) and find that correlations between changes in money and prices are …
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This paper analyses empirically the relationship between money and output in Peru, based on an orthogonal decomposition … application of wavelet filtering to analyze cointegrating relationships. No evidence of cointegration between money, real output … represent the existence of hidden co- integration. In this context, it is found that (1) the link between money and real output …
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