An explanation of a derivative instrument (forward, future, swap, option, etc) generally encompasses that the instrument is derived from, ie; is based on, certain, or aspects of certain, financial market instruments, and takes its value largely from these or other instruments or markets....

The money market has traditionally been defined as the market for marketable short-term securities. It has deep historical roots. Today, it is not an illuminating definition. The genesis of interest rates, which is the quintessence of monetary policy implementation, does not originate in market...

This paper studies the optimal monetary organization from a social point of view in a model with three players (the central bank, the government, the private sector), and in particular the reasons leading to people to entrust monetary policy to a central banker who weights inflation deviations...

[fre] Même s'il n'existe aucun problème d'incohérence temporelle, les États membres d'une union monétaire ont intérêt à nommer un gouverneur qui ne partage pas leurs préférences, en raison des externalités des politiques budgétaires. La modification volontaire de l'arbitrage...

In a monetary union, the incentives of national authorities to misrepresent their true preferences still exist in the absence of time inconsistency issues. With fiscal spillovers among countries, delegating the control of monetary policy to a central banker with a different output-inflation...

The paper deals with monetary and fiscal policy strategic interactions between the European Union and the rest of the world. We use a three-country Mundell-Fleming model to analyze the policy-makers?' responses to a negative global productivity shock. The results obtained in a fully...

This note explores the link between the effort level to strengthen institutional quality and the nature of the fiscal policy game among interdependent economies plagued by corruption. Every country has a lower incentive to improve public governance when the effort made abroad to remedy...

Corruption can enhance welfare in two complementary ways in a dynamic time inconsistency model: first, by mitigating the inflation bias of discretionary monetary policy; second, by reducing the loss due to the suboptimal distribution of distortions associated with public debt accumulation. The...

It persists in part of the literature that there are two monetary policy models: the monetary base-focused model (aka the money multiplier model/strict money-rule model) and the interest rate-focused model. The former only exists in theory because its implementation (for brief periods in a few...

This is the sixth in a series of seven papers on interest rates and it covers the various roles of interest rates: primary tool of monetary policy, bridge between present and future consumption, advancing consumption / investment with debt, interest rates' inverse relationship with asset prices...