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Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy: Reflections on the Development over the last 150 Years

Issing, Otmar; Wieland, Volker - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 233 (2013) 3, pp. 423-445

In this paper, we provide some reflections on the development of monetary theory and monetary policy over the last 150 …

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F.A. Hayek and his rational choice of monetary arrangements

Sahoo, Ganeswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper addresses the perspective of Hayek’s doctrine on monetary arrangements in the economy and his favorable argument for an international central bank over national central bank. I also discussed Hayek’s view on free banking (i.e. for the free issue of bank notes) that would enable...

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Was the Gibson Paradox for Real? A Wicksellian study of the Relationship between Interest Rates and Prices

Chadha, Jagjit S.; Perlman, Morris - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2014

We examine the relationship between prices and interest rates for seven advanced economies in the period up to 1913, emphasizing the UK. There is a significant long-run positive relationship between prices and interest rates for the core commodity standard countries. Keynes (1930) labelled this...

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Friedman and Lucas on the Phillips Curve: From a Disequilibrium to an Equilibrium Approach

Vroey, Michel De - In: Eastern Economic Journal 27 (2001) 2, pp. 127-148

In this paper I compare Friedman's expectations-augmented Phillips Curve model with Lucas' model on expectations and the neutrality of money and claim that they are underpinned by two different equilibrium concepts. Friedman's model is based on the stationary equilibrium conception, typical of...

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Belling the cat: Eli F. Heckscher on the gold standard as a discipline device

Fregert, Klas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011

Unlike Knut Wicksell, Eli Heckscher did not believe the time had arrived for “managed money” to replace the gold standard after World War I. The war had shown that only a gold standard could bind the central bank to a time-consistent policy with reasonable price stability. Heckscher likened...

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Economics and reality

Uhlig, Harald - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 34 (2012) 1, pp. 29-41

thinking and theory. In particular, which role do calibration, statistical inference, and structural change play? What is the …

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The Return of the Original Phillips curve? An Assessment of Lars E. O. Svensson's Critique of the Riksbank's Inflation Targeting, 1997-2012

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jonung, Lars - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

the Phillips curve based on constant inflation expectations has returned for Sweden. Based on estimates of this model …-vertical Phillips curve is transformed into a vertical one, in line with the Friedman/Phelps theory. <p> We have additional objections … unemployment and monetary policy in a small open economy such as Sweden. Third, we do not want to overburden Swedish monetary …

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Pioneering Price Level Targeting: The Swedish Experience 1931-1937.

Berg, C.; Jonung, L. - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1998

In September 1931, Sweden became the first country to make the stabilization of the domestic price level the official …

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Taking Back Globalization

Duggan, Marie Christine - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 45 (2013) 4, pp. 508-516

Many Americans believe free trade destroyed the U.S. industrial base, and blame foreign workers for taking their jobs. During World War II, Keynes had similar misgivings about the effect of postwar free trade on Britainâ€™s economy. Yet for Keynes, economic forces are never inevitable, and...

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DID CONFIDENCE KILL THE TRIFFIN PLAN?

Connell, Carol M - In: Review of Business and Finance Studies 2 (2011) 1, pp. 79-87

I examine two competing proposals for reforming and reviving confidence in the international monetary regime. Robert Triffin introduced and championed the proposal for centralized reserves. Fritz Machlup championed the proposal for flexible rates originally introduced by Milton Friedman. Triffin...

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