Recent models of monetary policy and monetary rules can have indeterminacy of equilibria. The indeterminacy property is often viewed as a difficulty of these models. We consider its significance using the learning approach to expectations formation by employing expectational stability as a...

It is indeed inflation targeting which has over recent years become popular in many central banks. The author's task will, however, be somewhat more limited in that she will try to evaluate the switch of monetary policies from the target zone approach to an explicit inflation target in her own...

The empirical methodology developed by King and Watson (1992) is employed to test the validity of a number of long-run neutrality propositions in the Canadian context. We test for long-run money neutrality, the vertical long-run Phillips curve, and the long-run Fisher relationship using...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze two aspects of the flux-reflux principle that is at the core of the theory of the monetary circuit. These pertain to (i) the issue of how investment is financed and (ii) the related phenomenon of internal financing of investment and pricing. Preliminary...

This paper considers a model of firms' financing based on the existence of a moral hazard problem in the choice of investment projects by a heterogeneous population of entrepreneurs. Two alternative ways of funding these projects, called unmonitored (or market) and monitored (or bank) lending,...

We construct a model to nalyze the two types of tender procedures used by the European Central Bank in its open market operations. We assume that the ECB minimizes the expected value of a loss function that depends on the quadratic difference between the interbank rate and a target interest rate...

In this paper, we analyze the problem of optimal domestic credit expansion for a small open economy.