We consider whether the introduction of the psychological concept of loss aversion into agents' preferences could generate a macroeconomic model in which changes in the money supply can have real, persistent effects. It is demonstrated that the macroeconomic implications of loss aversion depend...

It is argued that the history of the Australian Commonwealth Notes Issue Board over the period 1920-1924 is supportive of Friedman's contention that the possibility of a genuinely independent monetary authority is illusory. The Board was created as a genuinely independent monetary authority....

The irrelevance of expenditure shocks to nominal product in the Mundell-Fleming model disappears once "real balances" are taken to mean the nominal money stock deflated by the consumer price index, rather than the GDP deflator. Under this alternative definition of real balances there is a...