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This paper revisits how coexistence of money and bonds can make a society better off. For this purpose, a model is constructed in which payment instruments matter for settling real transactions and savings instruments matter because agents differ in how they discount future utility. Because...
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What instruments of monetary policy must be used in order to implement a unique equilibrium? This paper revisits the issues addressed by Sargent and Wallace (1975) on the multiplicity of equilibria when policy is conducted with interest rate rules. We show that the appropriate interest rate...
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This paper excavates the set of ideas known as modern monetary theory (MMT). The principal conclusion is that the macroeconomics of MMT is a restatement of elementary well-understood Keynesian macroeconomics. There is nothing new in MMT's construction of monetary macroeconomics that warrants the...
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This study investigates the role of housing prices in the Moroccan economy and their response to monetary policy shocks. Using a Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) model, we explore the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy through various channels, including interest rates, credit...
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We develop a model of monetary policy with a small departure from the basic New Keynesian (NK) model. In this model, the central bank can set the interest rate on bank reserves and the nominal stock of bank reserves independently, because these reserves reduce the costs of banking (i.e., have a...
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This is the sixth in a series of seven papers on interest rates and it covers the various roles of interest rates: primary tool of monetary policy, bridge between present and future consumption, advancing consumption / investment with debt, interest rates' inverse relationship with asset prices...
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This is the seventh in a series of seven papers on interest rates and it covers the Wicksell hypothesis, the general interpretation of it, an alternative interpretation, how the alternative interpretation is reconciled with the general interpretation, and its fit with the Taylor rule. A...
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This is the fifth in a series of seven papers on interest rates and it covers the monetary policy models, a bank liquidity analysis, the concept of quantitative easing in terms of a bank liquidity analysis, and how a QE policy affects interest rates. The seven papers cover: (1) what are interest...
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This is the fourth in a series of seven papers on interest rates and it covers the principle of interest rate discovery and security valuation, the micro structure of financial markets, the role of secondary markets, interest rate discovery in the debt and deposit markets, and the micro factors...
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This is the first in a series of seven papers on interest rates and it covers the basic terms and information required for a fuller understanding of the significance of interest rates: the instruments that interest rates apply to, the bank interest margin which plays an important transmission...
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