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reopen the security market at the end of the day. With this modification, overnight money demand is precisely zero. I show …
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We explore the connection between money, banks, and aggregate credit. We start with a simple real' model without money … then introduce money in this model. We show that if demand deposits are repayable in money rather than in goods, banks can …, reducing the real value of the deposits banks have to pay out. But demand deposits payable in money can expose the banks to new …
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annual wholesale price indexes for the period 1948-76. The data on money shocks are the unanticipated money growth series … results are negative. They reject the hypothesis that unexpected money shocks, as measured by Barro, affect price dispersion …
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magnitude of the unperceived money growth. The testing of this hypothesis requires two preliminary steps. First, a price … unperceived money growth. This estimation implies the postulation of an available information set and also a function relating the … variables in this set to money creation. The function used was based on considerations related to government demand for revenue …
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We formulate a generalization of the traditional medium-of-exchange function of money in contexts where there is … that the option to settle transactions directly with money strengthens the stance of sellers of goods and services vis … "latent money demand" considerations imply monetary policy remains effective through medium-of-exchange channels even if the …
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Japan suffered a very high inflation rate in 1973-74. The CPI inflation rate rose to near 30% in 1974, the highest rate in the postwar Japanese history after the chaotic hyperinflation following the end of the Second World War. Traditionally, the oil crisis is blamed for the 1973-74 high...
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Although bank supervision under the National Banking System exercised a light hand and panics were frequent, depositor losses were minimal. Double liability induced shareholders to carefully monitor bank managers and voluntarily liquidate banks early if they appeared to be in trouble. Inducing...
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We argue that the question of whether and when policy reform works should be investigated together with the political economy factors responsible for distortionary policies in the first place. These not only determine the initial distortions, but also often shape policy in the post-reform...
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We show that decentralized privately created money with unstable values can hinder the traded, more transaction … new federally-regulated, fully-backed currency as an alternative to the pre-existing money supply, which consisted of … this new type of stable, federally-backed money as a natural experiment, we show that places gaining access to the new …
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