The paper examines the relationship between money and prices in Japan based on Fisher’s (1911) transactions version of the quantity theory of money. Money is defined as aggregate debt less net foreign assets. A general price index is constructed from consumer prices, real estate prices, stock...

Is inflation always explained as a monetary phenomenon? In this study, the author presents empirical evidence regarding the relation of Money Growth and its effect on Inflation, for the specific case of Bolivia. The text describes the situation of the country analyzed in terms of monetary policy...

The paper examines the relationship between money and prices in Japan based on Fisher's (1911) transactions version of the quantity theory of money. Money is defined as aggregate debt less net foreign assets. A general price index is constructed from consumer prices, real estate prices, stock...

Leão (2005) has recently proposed a new explanation for the short run variability of the velocity of money based on the changes in the composition of the expenditure that occur along the business cycle. This paper presents further empirical evidence in favour of Leão’s Expenditure...

We study money creation and destruction in today's monetary architecture within a general equilibrium setting. Two types of money are created and destructed: bank deposits, when banks grant loans to firms or to other banks, and central bank money, when the central bank grants loans to private...

The purpose is to examine some of the links in the chain which is said to run from the rate of interest to the rate of inflation. It is argued that that there is a tendency to slip from arguments which that the rate of interest is related to the price level to suggesting that the rate of...

We present a detailed survey of changes in the reserve requirement system in Brazil and analyze the system's main functions and goals during the period from 1994 to 2012. We identify four different subperiods with respect to the use of this policy tool. In the first subperiod, from july 1994 to...

In a model with costly financial intermediation and financial disturbances, credit subsidies are desirable, irrespective of how they are financed. They are especially useful when the zero lower bound constraint is reached. They are superior to other credit policies such as direct lending.

We assess recent developments in monetary policy practice following the financial crisis drawing on papers from a specially convened conference in March 2010. In particular, we consider why central banks throughout the world have injected substantial quantities of liquidity into the financial...

We consider standard cash-in-advance monetary models and show that there are interest rate or money supply rules such that equilibria are unique. The existence of these single instrument rules depends on whether the economy has an infinite horizon or an arbitrarily large but finite horizon.