The paper integrates the two-pillar Phillips curve, which explains expected inflation by the money growth trend, within a simple macro model. A Taylor-like interest rule contains also a money growth target. The model takes into account serially correlated supply and money demand shocks; the...

"Uncertainty" indicated a critical post Keynesian argument against neoclassical monetarism, but was taken up by the European Central Bank (ECB) in order to emphasize the importance of the money supply indicator in its "two pillar" strategy. In a state of model uncertainty on behalf of market and...

Central banks can control the macro economy by means of interest rate policies also in a cashless economy. In a monetary economy with a positive demand for base money, the quantity of money represents an additional policy tool, independent from interest rate management. This hypothesis is...

While single elements of the European economic policy design are well founded, and have developed with some politico-economic logic from the history of stabilization policy, a coherent "concept" of monetary and fiscal policy is lacking. There is no agent who is responsible for demand...

New Keynesian Macroeconomics (NKM) obeys to the new dogma that macroeconomics should be firmly grounded in First Principles of micro theory. Households are assumed to run an intertemporal optimization calculus with respect to leisure and consumption by making use of perfect financial markets....

While single elements of the European economic policy design are well founded, and have developed with some politico-economic logic from the history of stabilization policy, a coherent "concept" of monetary and fiscal policy is lacking. There is no agent who is responsible for demand...