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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, G7 central banks have launched asset purchase programs in anticipation of an increase in government bond offerings to finance ballooning fiscal deficits. As the volume of government bonds owned by private investors is not expected to rise during the current...
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This paper deals with Russia's monetary policy in 2011. The authors analyze Russia's money morket, inflationary development, main measures in the monetary policy, the balance of payments and the RUR exchange rate
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Do changes in monetary policy affect inflation and output in the East African Community (EAC)? We find that (i … policy, sometimes move in directions that exert offsetting expansionary and contractionary effects on inflation - posing …
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Employing huge economic stimulus packages was a common response of many policy leaders during the past financial crisis. In Germany for instance, the government enacted two fiscal packages with an overall volume of approximately 80 billion Euros. On the other hand, the distortions in the banking...
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Bagus and Howden (2011) argue that price stickiness is a poor justification for advocating a flexible money supply through the issuing of fiduciary media under central or free banking. They view the contraction in output following an exogenous increase in money demand as an optimal response,...
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Notwithstanding the Ukrainian banking system's resilience under war, there are devaluation and inflation pressures. In … priority of inflation targeting and a freely floating exchange rate in favour of monetary financing of the budget deficit. The … slight increase of deposits rates, DGBs did not restrain inflation due to the lack of alternative monetary financing of the …
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This study develops the approach of corruption measurement based on the income-expenditure comparison. Using micro-level data on reported household earnings, expenditures and assets provided by Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for the period 2000-2009 we find that households with workers...
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We review the literature regarding the impact of financial innovation on the monetary transmission mechanism and on the way the central bank can achieve its ultimate goal, that is to control the price level. We argue that, although the form ofcentral bank instruments and current methods for...
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We review the literature regarding the impact of financial innovation on the monetary transmission mechanism and on the way the central bank can achieve its ultimate goal, that is to control the price level. We argue that, although the form ofcentral bank instruments and current methods for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752556
Without a lender of last resort financial stability is not possible and systemic financial crises get out of control. During and after the Great Reces-sion the US Federal Reserve System (Fed) and the European Central Bank (ECB) took on the role of lender of last resort in a comprehensive way....
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