The paper adds money supply and inflation expectations shocks to a well-known three-variable structural model that identifies oil price shocks through fundamentals affecting the oil market. Impulse responses show the significance of our two additional monetary shocks in impacting real oil...

Since we are living in a time of multiple crises and geopolitical unrest, it is important to look at how monetary aggregates affect the real economy. This will help us figure out how uncertainty affects the economy and come up with more stable financial and monetary policy measures, especially...

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model with sticky prices, in which "inside" money, made out of commercial banks' liabilities, plays an active, structural role role. It is shown that, in such a model, an inside money shock has a well-defined meaning. A calibrated version of the...

This paper introduces a Divisia monetary aggregate for Germany and explores its information content for the Great Recession. Divisia money and the corresponding simple sum aggregate are highly correlated in normal times but begin to diverge before the crisis. Out of sample forecast analysis and...

This paper presents evidence of money non-redundancy in shaping Euro Area business cycle. The dynamic effects of liquidity are evaluated by means of an agnostic approach. Results show that shocks to monetary aggregates permanently raise prices, even if to a different degree depending on the time...