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This paper takes stock of the evolution of the international monetary system over the last thousand years. Several points stand out from the analysis. One is the reluctance of governments to embrace radical changes in international monetary relations. Another is the conflict between external and...
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can be analyzed as a credibility problem if the government has only one policy instrument, money supply carried out by … solve the credibility problem. They involve printing money or nominal debt and either (1) cutting taxes, (2) buying real … these policy instruments. It commits to higher money supply in the future so that the private sector expects inflation …
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money, surveying the ongoing theoretical and empirical debate. The key conclusion is that an exclusive focus on non … policy decisions by providing a clearer narrative of the relative role of money in the interaction with other economic and …
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The most salient trend in monetary policy over the past two decades has been increasing reliance on money market … competition in their financial markets complicates their efforts to rely on money market operations, at times forcing them to rely … instead on direct instruments or moral suasion. In some larger countries, the shift toward a reliance on money market …
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Modifications to Japan's monetary policy framework will be needed as positive inflation resumes because the current monetary regime and operations are tailored to ending deflation. The paper suggests that the monetary regime should move from an "anti-deflation" objective to an inflation...
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Using data on long-term interest rates for 17 industrial countries, this paper develops some simple measures of monetary policy credibility and then tests if such measures improve the out-of-sample forecasts of conventional models of the inflation-unemployment process. The results provide some...
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This paper looks at whether the aggregate ERM money supply has been a useful predictor of short-term changes in … period since 1987, when there have been no realignments, the ERM money supply performs at least as well, and arguably better … neither money supply is a good predictor of real activity. …
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, time series and structural models of the money multiplier and money demand yield results that are statistically and …
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Some recent studies suggest the possibility of estimating a stable aggregate demand-for-money relationship for the …-invariables framework to identify what is gained and what may be lost through cross-border aggregation of money demand. It provides an …
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This paper evaluates whether Georgia is ready to adopt inflation targeting (IT), a monetary policy framework that several emerging markets have adopted recently. After reviewing selected prerequisites for successfully implementing IT, the paper focuses on whether one specific precondition is in...
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