We investigate the role of monetary policy in stock price misalignments and explore whether central banks can attenuate excessive mispricing as suggested by the proponents of a “leaning against the wind” monetary policy. Decomposing stock prices into expected excess dividends, an equity risk...

When central banks announce cuts to future interest rates, the expected costs of government debt service decrease, generating additional resources in future budgets. This paper demonstrates that if the rational-expectations assumption is dropped, fiscal authority can exploit those gains by...

This study explores how the real money balance effect (RMBE) affects the neo-Fisherian effect (NFE) in a standard new Keynesian model. First, we find that the presence of the RMBE can partly explain the occurrence of the NFE, and that increasing the nonseparability parameter magnifies the...

The global economy has witnessed significant transformations in recent decades, marked by the emergence of new economic powers and the evolution of financial systems. Within this context, the globalization of currencies has become a crucial aspect of international economic dynamics. This paper...

This article presents an essay of a macroeconomic modeling dedicated on monetary policy, a Quarterly Projection Model for the case of Madagascar. Initially, we apply the canonical model, developed by Berg-Karam-Laxton (2006a,b), to the data of the Malagasy economy. Subsequently, we propose an...

Central banks are considering the issuance of a central bank digital currency to serve as a payment tool to support economic activities. A central bank digital currency can also serve secondary purposes that are related or unrelated to the statutory objectives of a central bank which is monetary...

It has been observed in the last years a systematic process of reserve accumulation from emerging countries, even though is a clear consequence of international liquidity it is worth asking ourselves the purpose and the limits of applying this policies by Monetary Officials. The purpose herein...

Some selected examples from trade history and even more the rise of superstar firms in the early twenty first century make visible the eminence of monetary delocalization in the process of market creation. Market creation is highly concentrated in space. As a result, inside and outside money...

Monetary policy operations affect bank balance sheets (BBSs). This study develops a balance sheet model to examine the impacts of monetary policy operations on banks’ ability to supply funds. That ability is assessed using the balance sheet capacities provided by regulatory risk management...

Recent research unveiled the heterogeneous effects of rising energy prices for low-income and high-income European households, as they tend to purchase distinct consumption baskets. We explore the effects of energy inflation on consumption inequality in a Two-Agent New Keynesian (TANK) model...