This paper endeavours to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nature and the possible importance of global excess liquidityʺ, a concept which has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we present some conceptual discussion on the...

This paper models the interaction between international trade finance and monetary policy in open economies and shows that trade finance affects the propagation mechanism of all macroeconomic shocks that are identified to be drivers of business cycles in advanced economies. The model is...

This paper endeavours to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nature and the possible importance of "global excess liquidity," a concept which has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we present some conceptual discussion on the...