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The macroeconomic policy challenges of balance sheet recession : lessons from Japan for the European crisis
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the … characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary … well as gradual real income losses, the economic policy implication for Japan and Europe is the timely exit from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743745
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Modern Money Theory and interrelations between the treasury and the central bank : the case of the United States
Tymoigne, Éric - 2014
One of the main contributions of Modern Money Theory (MMT) has been to explain why monetarily sovereign governments have a very flexible policy space that is unconstrained by hard financial limits. Not only can they issue their own currency to pay public debt denominated in their own currency,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251586
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Minsky, monetary policy, and mint street : challenges for the art of monetary policymaking in emerging economies
Yanamandra, Srinivas - 2014
This paper examines the emerging challenges to the art of monetary policymaking using the case study of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in light of developments in the Indian economy during the last decade (2003-04 to 2013-14). The paper uses Hyman P. Minsky's financial instability hypothesis as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436173
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Twenty years of the German euro are more than enough
Bibow, Jörg - 2018
This paper reviews the performance of the euro area since the euro's launch 20 years ago. It argues that the euro crisis has exposed existential flaws in the euro regime. Intra-area divergences and the corresponding buildup of imbalances had remained unchecked prior to the crisis. As those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894027
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Analysis of monetary policy and financial stability : a new paradigm
Goodhart, Charles A. E.; Osorio, Carolina; Tsomocos, … - 2009
This paper introduces agent heterogeneity, liquidity, and endogenous default to a DSGE framework. Our model allows for … the economy. Due to liquidity and endogenous default, the transmission mechanism of shocks is well defined, and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923247
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Banking panics and liquidity in a monetary economy
Matsuoka, Tarishi; Watanabe, Makoto - 2017
This paper studies banks' liquidity provision in the Lagos and Wright model of monetary exchanges. With aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747458
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CBDC next-level : a new architecture for financial "super-stability"
Bossone, Biagio; Haines, Michael R. - 2023
Fractional reserve regimes generate fragile banking, and full reserve regimes (e.g., narrow banking) remove fragility at the cost of suppressing the role of banks as lenders. A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) could provide safe money, but at the cost of potentially disrupting bank lending....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014230396
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The ECB's policy, the recovery fund and the importance of trust : the case of Greece
Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; … - 2021
This paper, using a microfounded macroeconomic model that embeds the key features of the Greek economy, studies the efficacy of the various policy measures taken, at national and EU level, to cushion the economic effects of the pandemic shock. The paper attempts to give quantitative answers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650611
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The failure of ECB monetary policy from a Mises-Hayek perspective
Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable overinvestment booms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619626
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Can central banks do the unpleasant job that governments should do?
Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; … - 2023
We investigate what happens when the fiscal authorities do not react to rising public debt so that the unpleasant task of fiscal sustainability falls upon the Central Bank (CB). In particular, we explore whether the CB's bond purchases in the secondary market can restore stability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331713