In a number of financial market texts the bid-offer spread in flow markets is not well depicted. In such markets the demand and supply curves to the left of the equilibrium point cannot exist. This article offers an alternative depiction: only the curves to the right of the equilibrium point...

An explanation of a derivative instrument (forward, future, swap, option, etc) generally encompasses that the instrument is derived from, ie; is based on, certain, or aspects of certain, financial market instruments, and takes its value largely from these or other instruments or markets....

Many texts which cover money creation regard the reserve requirement (RR) as being at the very centre of the process, and many still regard the process as starting with a bank receiving a new deposit (and placing the required reserves with the central bank, lending out the rest, which is...

The money market has traditionally been defined as the market for marketable short-term securities. It has deep historical roots. Today, it is not an illuminating definition. The genesis of interest rates, which is the quintessence of monetary policy implementation, does not originate in market...

Much intellectual energy has been devoted over many decades to the concept of money "demand" and its significance for monetary policy. It is obvious that the non-bank private sector (NBPS) does hold non-interest-bearing money (incongruously called money "demand") for specific purposes (in the...

Monetary literature remains plagued by references to money “supply” at a time when the endogeneity of money is becoming generally accepted. Money endogeneity is not a hypothesis; it is a fact, and one that has existed since a goldsmith-banker wrote out the first receipt (bank note) and...

Despite stout efforts by some scholars to demonstrate the logical and direct relationship between bank domestic credit extension (DCE) and M3 growth (because money creation is the outcome of new DCE), there remains, in much of the literature, a disconnection between these two aggregates. The...

There is an immense body of literature on the relationship of money and output, with result-integrity depending on the aggregates used. This paper proposes an alternative two-step approach, based on the reality that: (1) money creation is just the outcome of new bank loans extended, and (2) the...

Many scholars have fought valiantly to change perceptions on the process of money creation. However, misconceptions remain in place some quarters. In order to demonstrate empirically that a new bank loan creates a new bank deposit (without the bank having to recruit a new deposit), the author...