Mainstream macro-models have assumed away financial frictions, in particular default. The minimum addition in order to introduce financial intermediaries, money and liquidity into such models is the possibility of default. This, in turn, requires that institutions and price formation mechanisms...

In this paper we propose a novel way to model the labor market in the context of a New-Keynesian general equilibrium model, incorporating labor market frictions in the form of hiring and firing costs. We show that such a model is able to replicate many important stylized facts of the business...

On December 3, 2015, Mario Draghi, President European Central Bank (ECB), claims: “we are doing more because it works, not because it fails.” Really true or not?To help assess and further promote the very basics of money calculus, as well as an impetus to improve the actions taken by...

Bitcoin has enabled competition between digital cryptocurrencies and traditional legal tender fiat currencies. Despite rapidly increasing acceptance, so far the affirmation of cryptocurrency as better money has been thwarted by dramatic deflationary price instability. Successful at disposing of...

Today, India is the second fastest-growing economy in the world and the real estate sector is one of the most globally recognized sectors in India. The real estate market is expected to touch US$ 180 billion by 2020. Important is that Indian government is also after converting black money of...

Following the emergence of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, governments have begun the process of stabilizing the shocks caused by the pandemic through macroeconomic policy id Est through fiscal policy and monetary policy. That is why it is a modern, new, and relevant topic for study....

The main focus of the present paper is to analyze the impacts of financial policy on inflation rates. The analysis depended on time series data and was divided into theoretical and applied analytical framework. An econometric model was utilized to reflect the relations between financial policy...

One of the oldest and most widely accepted opinions say that money is a major determinant of price changes and economic activity. Therefore, by controlling the money supply, the central bank can control inflation. In other words, an increase in money supply, increased liquidity in the economy...

This Article focuses on the U.S. Federal Reserve's controversial practice of loaning U.S. dollars to foreign central banks, which the foreign central banks then turn around and loan to institutions in their jurisdictions. The Federal Reserve does not know the identity of these recipient...