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functions of money. So-called stable coins are intended to bridge this gap, but whether they can be successfully scaled up and …
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Digitalization of Money is a crossroad in monetary history. Advances in technology has led to the development of new … forms of money: virtual (crypto) currencies like bitcoin; stable coins like libra/diem; and central bank digital currencies … (CBDC) like the Bahamian sand dollar. These innovations in money and finance have resonance to earlier shifts in monetary …
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The decentralized structure of the Federal Reserve System is evaluated as a mechanism for generating and processing new ideas on monetary and financial policy. The role of the Reserve Banks starting in the 1960s is emphasized. The introduction of monetarism in the 1960s, rational expectations in...
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economic activities and hence with regional money. Monetary policy was one body conducted at regional level, but overseen … money circulated, with gold, silver, copper, and paper all present at various times. Monetary policy was guided by monetary …
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In this paper we report the results of the estimation of a rich dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of the U.S. economy with both stochastic volatility and parameter drifting in the Taylor rule. We use the results of this estimation to examine the recent monetary history of the...
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During the turbulent 1970s and 1980s the Bundesbank established an outstanding reputation in the world of central banking. Germany achieved a high degree of domestic stability and provided safe haven for investors in times of turmoil in the international financial system. Eventually the...
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nation's monetary structure. They included determining what monies could be legal tender, who could emit fiat paper money …
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The transition of the U.S. money supply from the mixture of paper bills of credit, certificates, and foreign coins that … intermediation of capital. It describes how the struggle of the colonies to maintain viable substitutes for hard money set the stage … recently-constructed estimates of the U.S. money stock for 1790-1820 and relates them to measures of the nation's early …
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, and money supply shocks using a structural panel vector autoregression. We then use historical decompositions to … nineteenth century reflected both positive aggregate supply shocks and negative money supply shocks. However, the negative money …
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The Great Depression changed the institutions governing monetary policy. These changes included the departure from the gold standard, an opening of a a new avenue for monetizing government debt, changes in the structure of the the Federal Reserve System, and new monetary powers of the Treasury....
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