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A central proposition in research on the role of banks in the transmission mechanism is that monetary policy imparts a direct impact on deposits and that deposits act as the driving force of bank lending. This paper argues that the emphasis on policy-induced changes in deposits is misplaced. A...
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A central proposition in research on the role that banks play in the transmission mechanism is that monetary policy imparts a direct impact on deposits and that deposits, insofar as they constitute the supply of loanable funds, act as the driving force of bank lending. This paper argues that the...
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The foreign exchange market seeks to use a market-based mechanism to discover a price for a currency. But, this price discovery mechanism is hampered by a variety of externalities, chief of which is the different intermediaries involved in the trading and clearing of a currency. Such...
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Fiat money requires no backing to be accepted at a uniquely determined positive value. I show this using an equilibrium … adding a no-arbitrage condition by which the value of money cannot fall to zero if agents know that it can be positive. The … running a non-Ricardian policy or providing implicit backing. Models that remain silent on the nature of money can be misused …
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investment of money market funds (MMFs) at the Federal Reserve's overnight reverse repo (ON RRP) facility has continued to …
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responses of output, inflation, and money market mutual funds (MMMF) to a positive monetary shock. The idea of incorporating …
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In response to the Great Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have adopted unconventional monetary policy instruments. We investigate if one of these, purchases of long-term government debt, could be a valuable addition to conventional short-term interest rate policy...
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Although designed to support monetary policy, two crucial aspects of the central bank framework can disconnect the monetary policy transmission: banks' access to central bank deposits and Quantitative Easing (QE). We show how both hinder the monetary policy transmission through the main...
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modified to account for observed money growth and inflation trends, and that monetary trends may serve as a useful cross … persistent errors in monetary policy and sustained trends in money growth and inflation. If interest rate prescriptions derived … from Keynesian-style models are augmented with a cross-check against money-based estimates of trend inflation, inflation …
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reviewed. It is argued that money can act as a useful information variable in a world in which a number of indicators are … imperfectly observed. In this context, the paper discusses the role of a reference value or benchmark for money growth in episodes … of heightened financial uncertainty. A reference value for money growth can also act as an anchor for expectations and …
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