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The nature of money continues to perplex us. Over time anthropologists, economists, historians and sociologists have provided various answers to the question "what is money?" Ultimately these answers reflect different and often contradictory approaches to the dynamics of economic systems and...
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"A century of macroeconomic and monetary thought at the National Bank of Belgium" traces the history of economic research at the National Bank of Belgium, from the early decades of the 20th century to its present functioning in the Eurosystem. The study also goes into the major economic policy...
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also plays a key role in Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), the concept of helicopter money and the idea of permanent monetary …, that the theory is almost always contradicted by the actual workings of the modern credit economy. In fact, MMT seems to be …
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Whether a theoretical system is realistic or not has been a concern in economics, particularly in monetary theory, over … the past century. Following John R. Hicks' proposal that a realistic monetary theory could be constructed along an … basic theories of monetary analysis. Concentrating primarily on certain fundamental building blocks it covers: the theory …
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This paper asks why modern finance theory and the efficient market hypothesis have failed to explain long-term carry … Profits, 2010) and the Theory of the Monetary Circuit to give a mathematical representation of Minsky's Financial Instability …
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This paper asks why modern finance theory and the efficient market hypothesis have failed to explain long-term carry …: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth, 2007) and the Theory of the Monetary Circuit to …
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While both public and private financial agencies supply asset markets with large quantities of information, they do not necessarily disclose all asset-related information to the general public. This observation leads us to ask what principles might govern the optimal disclosure policy for an...
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questions and preparing Thünen's theory of capital and interest. Thünen starts his analysis with a description of the … extended quantity theory of money by introducing the velocity of money transactions and formulating the correct algebraic … twentieth century and from the perspective of modern monetary theory, Thünen's drafts are an unexpected discovery and of …
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Traditionally, aggregate liquidity shocks are modelled as exogenous events. Extending our previous work (Cao & Illing, 2008), this paper analyses the adequate policy response to endogenous systemic liquidity risk. We analyse the feedback between lender of last resort policy and incentives of...
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This paper contributes to the micro-foundation of money in centralized markets with idiosyncratic uncertainty. It shows existence of stationary monetary equilibria and ensures that there is an optimum quantity of money. The rational solution of our model is compared with actual behavior in a...
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