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This paper presents an integrated theory of money and banking. I address the following question: when both individuals … problem of the bank. Secondly, it is optimal for the bank to require loans be settled with short-term inside money, i.e., bank …
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Woodford (2003) describes a popular class of neo-Wicksellian models in which monetary policy is characterized by an interest-rate rule, and the money market and financial institutions are typically not even modeled. Critics contend that these models are incomplete and unsuitable for...
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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 … monetary thinking at the National Bank of Belgium. The focus is very much on the role of the Research Department in …
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The purpose of this paper is to build consistent, integrated datasets to investigate whether various disaggregated data can shed light on the possible sources of the statistical discrepancy. Our strategy is first to use disaggregated data to estimate consistent sets of input-output models that...
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Several economic data series of Liechtenstein are backwardly estimated in order to achieve consistent historic time series. The generated series consist for instance of the national income for the years 1954 to 1992 (by regressive inter- and retropolation with indicators) and 1993 to 1997 (by...
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The recent changes in the national accounts unequivocally imply that the nature of the measured growth rate and business cycle has changed. This note investigates to what extent.
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We investigate a switch from fixed-weighted national accounts data to chain-type data in the quarterly macroeconometric model Mona. As in other countries the idea behind this change in the national accounts data has been to reduce the substitution bias, which has grown with the amount of...
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In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most simple and fundamental question remains unanswered: how large is the African private sector? We present novel estimates of the size of the private sector in 50 African...
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According to KENDRICK (1996, p. 1), National Accounts have become an indispensable tool for macroeconomic analysis, projections, and policy formulation. The paper elaborates on this statement, addressing policy domains that rely heavily on National Accounts data. Yet - useful as they are -...
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