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Chapter 3. Money and Inflation : Some Critical Issues

McCallum, Bennett T.; Nelson, Edward - In: Handbook of monetary economics : volume 3, (pp. 97-153). 2010

We consider what, if any, relationship there is between monetary aggregates and inflation, and whether there is any substantial reason for modifying the current mainstream mode of policy analysis, which frequently does not consider monetary aggregates at all. We begin by considering the body of...

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Economic policy in India : for economic stimulus, or for austerity and volatility?

Sen, Sunanda; DasGupta, Zico - 2014

The implementation of economic reforms under new economic policies in India was associated with a paradigmatic shift in monetary and fiscal policy. While monetary policies were solely aimed at "price stability" in the neoliberal regime, fiscal policies were characterized by the objective of...

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Japan's liquidity trap

Akram, Tanweer - 2016

Japan has experienced stagnation, deflation, and low interest rates for decades. It is caught in a liquidity trap. This paper examines Japan’s liquidity trap in light of the structure and performance of the country’s economy since the onset of stagnation. It also analyzes the country’s...

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Monetary policy disconnect

Ballensiefen, Benedikt; Ranaldo, Angelo; Winterberg, Hannah - 2020 - This version: December 11, 2020

Although designed to support monetary policy, two crucial aspects of the central bank framework can disconnect the monetary policy transmission: banks' access to central bank deposits and Quantitative Easing (QE). We show how both hinder the monetary policy transmission through the main...

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The Japanese banks in the lasting low-, zero- and negative-interest rate environment

Schnabl, Gunther; Murai, Taiki - 2020

The bursting of the Japanese bubble economy in the early 1990s put the stage for a lasting lowzero-, and negative-interest rate environment, which fundamentally changed the business environment for the Japanese commercial banks. On the income side, with interest margins becoming increasingly...

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The VARying effect of foreign shocks in Central and Eastern Europe

Jiménez-Rodriguez, Rebeca; Morales-Zumaquero, Amalia; … - 2010

shocks - on key macroeconomic variables in ten Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries by using near-VAR models and …This paper investigates the impact of international shocks - interest rate, commodity price and industrial production …. Moreover, our results suggest that the way how countries react to world commodity price shocks is related to the underlying …

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Interest Rates 1 : What are Interest Rates?

Faure, Alexander Pierre - 2014

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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What Anchors for the Natural Rate of Interest?

Borio, Claudio E. V. - 2019

The paper takes a critical look at the conceptual and empirical underpinnings of prevailing explanations for low real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates over long horizons and finds them incomplete. The role of monetary policy, and its interaction with the financial cycle in particular, deserve...

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Is Monetary Policy More Efficient in the Post-Banking Sector Consolidation Period? Evidence from the Interest Rate Pass-Through in Nigeria

Sanusi, Aliyu Rafindadi - 2012

This paper estimates magnitude and speed of the interest rate pass-through for Nigeria using a monthly data for the period 2002:M1-2010:M04. It uses the Impulse Response Functions from a Structural Vector Auto-Regression (SVAR) model of the interest rate transmission to derive the dynamic...

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Relationship lending and monetary policy pass-through

Cao, Jin; Dubuis, Pierre; Liaudinskas, Karolis - 2025

This paper investigates the link between bank-firm lending relationships and monetary policy pass-through, focusing on episodes of low interest rates. Using administrative tax and bank supervisory data ranging from 1997 to 2019, we track the entirety of bank-firm relationships in Norway. Our...

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