The role of unanticipated changes in money growth for aggregate fluctuations is reexamined using the methods of quantitative equilibrium business cycle theory. A stochastic growth model with money is constructed that has the feature, following Lucas (1972, 1975), that production and trade take...

A small analytic framework is build to analyse the relation between reserve requirements, inflation, and seigniorage revenues. From the analysis we can derive steady-state seigniorage revenues as a function of the rate of inflation and the intensity of financial repression. The framework is...

Extending the approach of Bernanke and Blinder (1992), Strongin (1992), and Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (1994a, 1994b), we develop and apply a VAR-based methodology for measuring the stance of monetary policy. More specifically, we develop a "semi-structural" VAR approach, which extracts...

The role and influence of inter-enterprise arrears on Russian economy and implications for the monetary policy are considered. A brief overview of major trends in inter-enterprise arrears development in Russia is given. The reciprocal nature of arrears and strong correlation between the overdue...

Despite the fact that the macro-economic modelling of the econometric type has almost a 30-years tradition in the Slovak Republic, the econometric modelling of the more detailed money structure has no history at all. The significance of the problem with time series is held by the fact that no...