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Nominal rigidities have an important role in macro models used for the analysis of monetary policy. Recently, attractive prices (also known as price points) have often been referred to as one important potential explanation of nominal rigidities. An increased interest on attractive prices as an...
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In this article, I provide a general model to incentivize student involvement in an economics course on an ongoing basis. Rather than presenting students with a discrete number of diverse experiments to illustrate different economic concepts, I opt for the adoption of a single experiment that...
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This paper presents a simple inflation-targeting model with alternative assumptions regarding the conduct of monetary policy. The central bank is assumed to either follow a Taylor rule or minimize a social welfare loss function. The model can be tractably described by means of a straightforward...
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Many popular macroeconomics textbooks have recently adopted the dynamic aggregate demand – aggregate supply framework to analyze business cycle fluctuations and the effects of monetary policy. This brings the textbook treatment much closer to the research frontier, although one major...
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Apart from the main misconception of money creation, that is, the exogenous-endogenous money creation debate, there exist a number of lesser misconceptions, including that banks are 'fully lent' when they have no excess reserves, that money creation begins with a new bank deposit, and that a...
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The endogenous-exogenous money debate is a futile one. Exogenous money creation, based on the money multiplier, is not a money creation process. Rather, it is a monetary policy model, but in it money is still created endogenously: bank loans (and foreign asset accumulation by banks) concurrently...
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Exogenous money creation does not exist, but did under a past specie-money system. Central bank control of bank reserves and therefore control of bank deposit (money) creation via the money multiplier can exist, but this has nothing to do with the process of money creation. Rather, it is a style...
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The state of bank liquidity, measured as the banks' net excess reserves (NER) with the central bank, is a critical element of the successful implementation of monetary policy. Central banks have absolute control over NER and manipulate it to bring about a positive NER (in QE periods) to drive...
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There is a profound misconception amongst certain commentators on money and banking: that quantitative easing creates new money. The misconception is either: (1) that new money is injected into the economy; (2) newly created excess reserves can be used by the banks to make new loans. Neither of...
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It is sometimes stated that government spending leads to money creation, at the same time providing the banks with excess reserves, leading to further money creation. This is so, but the statement ignores the fact that the money stock (and reserves) was depleted when revenue was raised in order...
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