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Despite constituting the very heart of the monetary transmission mechanism, widespread misconceptions still exist regarding how monetary policy is implemented. This paper highlights the key misconceptions in this regard and shows how they have compromised the understanding of important aspects...
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A central proposition in research on the role of banks in the transmission mechanism is that monetary policy imparts a direct impact on deposits and that deposits act as the driving force of bank lending. This paper argues that the emphasis on policy-induced changes in deposits is misplaced. A...
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A central proposition in research on the role that banks play in the transmission mechanism is that monetary policy imparts a direct impact on deposits and that deposits, insofar as they constitute the supply of loanable funds, act as the driving force of bank lending. This paper argues that the...
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We define a non-tâtonnement dynamics in continuous-time for pure-exchange economies with outside and inside fiat money … can use them to pay their own debts only in the next period. Provided there is enough inside money, monetary trade curves … converge towards Pareto optimal allocations; money has a positive value along each trade curve, except on the optimal rest …
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We define continuous-time dynamics for exchange economies with fiat money. Traders have locally rational expectations … game involving a double-auction with limit-price orders. Money has a positive value except on optimal rest-points where it … nominal variables. Money is not neutral, either in the short-run or long-run, and a localized version of the quantity theory …
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investment of money market funds (MMFs) at the Federal Reserve's overnight reverse repo (ON RRP) facility has continued to …
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responses of output, inflation, and money market mutual funds (MMMF) to a positive monetary shock. The idea of incorporating …
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to the path of short-term rates; 3) deposit insurance has been extended, helping to insulate the money stock from credit …
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A measure of the neutral policy interest rate can be used to gauge the stance of monetary policy. We define the neutral rate as the real policy rate consistent with output at its potential level and inflation equal to target after the effects of all cyclical shocks have dissipated. This is a...
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In response to the Great Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have adopted unconventional monetary policy instruments. We investigate if one of these, purchases of long-term government debt, could be a valuable addition to conventional short-term interest rate policy...
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