scholarly journals Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy: Reflections on the Development over the last 150 Years

2013 ◽  
Vol 233 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Otmar Issing ◽  
Volker Wieland
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
The Political ◽  
Monetary Theory ◽  
Academic Discussion

SummaryIn this paper, we provide some reflections on the development of monetary theory and monetary policy over the last 150 years. Rather than presenting an encompassing overview, which would be overambitious, we simply concentrate on a few selected aspects that we view as milestones in the development of this subject.We also try to illustrate some of the interactions with the political and financial system, academic discussion and the views and actions of central banks.

scholarly journals Central banks: Hesitant guardians of equilibrium

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (s1) ◽  
pp. 125-139
Author(s):  
Jerzy Hausner ◽  
Andrzej Sławiński
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Budget Constraint ◽  
Soft Budget Constraint ◽  
Intellectual Heritage ◽  
Inherent Tendency

In our paper we focus on situations when central banks have to conduct monetary policy in a world in which they cannot rely fully on what is regarded the best practice and they have to cope with financial system inherent tendency to be unstable. Both phenomena are rooted in János Kornai’s intellectual heritage highlighting that economy tends to divert from equilibrium and that soft budget constraint erodes economic actors’ behavior.

The political economy of inflation

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-343
Author(s):  
Frances Coppola
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Output ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
Redistributive Effects ◽  
Fiscal And Monetary Policy ◽  
Political Decisions

For the last 40 years, macroeconomics has been dominated by Milton Friedman’s view that inflation occurs when the supply of money rises more quickly than economic output – ‘too much money chasing too few goods’, as the saying goes. If inflation is always due to an imbalance of money supply and output, central banks alone determine the path of inflation, and fiscal policy merely has a redistributive function. This paper draws on historical and empirical evidence as well as recent theoretical literature to show that this view is mistaken. Monetary policy has redistributive effects, and fiscal policy affects the money supply. It is therefore impossible to separate them in practice. Both fiscal and monetary policy have inflationary consequences, and because their distributional effects are different, monetary policy cannot fully offset fiscal decisions. Fiscal and monetary policy are influenced by political decisions and are themselves political in nature. Since inflation reflects spending and saving patterns which are affected by political choices, it is fundamentally a political phenomenon.

scholarly journals Should Monetary Policy Respond To Asset Price Bubbles? Revisiting the Debate

2008 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sushil Wadhwani
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Asset Prices ◽  
Asset Price ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
Asset Price Bubbles ◽  
Price Bubbles ◽  
Inflation Forecasts

Recent events have highlighted the importance of asset prices to central bank decisions. We argue that, in response to asset price bubbles, central banks should ‘lean against the wind’ (LATW hereafter). Even if the bubbles themselves are not significantly affected by LATW, macroeconomic performance can be improved if monetary policy reacts to asset price misalignments over and above the reaction to fixed horizon inflation forecasts. In addition, it might reduce the probability of bubbles arising at all. This article restates the case for LATW, and reviews the debate. In particular I respond to various criticisms that have been made against LATW and briefly consider alternative policies designed to make the financial system less cyclical.

Modern Banking System as a Source of Cyclic Development of Market Economy

2011 ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
A. Rakviashvili
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Austrian Theory

The article conducts theoretical analysis of the monetary policy costs. On the basis of the authors interpretation of the Austrian theory of business cycle the article shows the destructive influence of the central banks intervention in the financial system on the economy. It also analyzes market agents response to the monetary policy.

scholarly journals Monetary Policy of Central Banks of the BRICS Countries in the Global Financial System

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Bekareva ◽  
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N. A. Kravchenko ◽  
E. N. Meltenisova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Global Financial System

scholarly journals Les post-keynésiens et la monnaie endogène

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 191-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Lavoie
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Monetary Theory ◽  
Production Economy ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
Endogenous Process

Abstract This paper attempts to identify the peculiar aspects of post-Keynesian monetary theory. In a modern production economy, the growth of the stock of money is an essentially endogenous process. It results from the Financial needs of firms to pay out incomes to households. It follows that monetary policy is asymmetrical: central banks cannot increase the rate of growth of the money supply, they can only restrain it. Hence, inflation is never and nowhere a monetary phenomenon.

Macroprudential Policy Instruments of Central Banks

2012 ◽  
pp. 32-47
Author(s):  
S. Andryushin ◽  
V. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Risk ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Macroprudential Policy ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Financial Cycles

The paper analyzes central banks macroprudencial policy and its instruments. The issues of their classification, option, design and adjustment are connected with financial stability of overall financial system and its specific institutions. The macroprudencial instruments effectiveness is evaluated from the two points: how they mitigate temporal and intersectoral systemic risk development (market, credit, and operational). The future macroprudentional policy studies directions are noted to identify the instruments, which can be used to limit the financial systemdevelopment procyclicality, mitigate the credit and financial cycles volatility.

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