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This paper sheds new light on the information content of monetary and credit aggregates for future price developments in the euro area. Overall, we find strong variation in the information content of these variables over time. We show that monetary and credit aggregates are very often selected...
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This paper provides an overview of the role of money in modern macro models. In particular, we are focussing on New … Keynesian and New Monetarist models to investigate their main findings and most significant shortcomings in considering money … recent New Keynesian literature, we argue that keeping an eye on money is important to monetary policy decision-makers in …
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This paper examines the impact of monetary policy and central bank information on banks' lending using data on German bank balance sheets from 2002 to 2018. Local projection estimates show that the volume of loans to non-financial corporations declines significantly after a restrictive monetary...
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This paper demonstrates how a target for money growth can be beneficial for an inflation targeting central bank acting … under discretion. Because the growth rate of money is closely related to the change in the interest rate and he growth of … real output, delegating a money growth target to the central bank makes discretionary policy more inertial, leading to …
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We analyze money financing of fiscal transfers (helicopter money) in two simple New Keynesian models: a "textbook …" model in which all money is non-interest-bearing (e.g., all money is currency), and a more realistic model with interest …-bearing reserves. In the textbook model with only non-interest-bearing money, we find the following: A money-financed fiscal expansion …
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The economic characteristics of the COVID-19 crisis differ from those of previous crises. It is a combination of demand- and supply-side constraints which led to the formation of a monetary overhang that will be unfrozen once the pandemic ends. Monetary policy must take this effect into...
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This paper empirically investigates whether individuals withhold a certain amount of cash for precautionary reasons at the point-of-sale (POS) in order to be able to cover future transactions that might have to be paid for in cash. Such behaviour is costly for consumers because it imposes...
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Counterfeit prevention is a major task for central banks, as it helps to maintain public confidence in the currency. It is often maintained that a high quality of the banknotes in circulation helps the public detect counterfeits. However, there has not been any scientific evidence in support of...
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The present work offers a review on two divergent schools of thought regarding the subject of money and highlights why … understanding it is important to grasp the workings and nature of the concept of money. We adopt a spontaneous order perspective on … social institutions, considering money as one. Such framework allows for the construction of axioms from which we formulate …
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A crucial condition for the existence of a credit channel through bank loans is that monetary policy should be able to change bank loan supply. This paper contributes to the discussion on this issue by presenting empirical evidence from dynamic panel estimations based on a dataset that comprises...
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