Limits of Monetary Policy Autonomy of East Asian Central Banks

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.

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On the money creation approach to banking

Annals of Finance ◽

10.1007/s10436-021-00385-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Salomon Faure ◽

Hans Gersbach

Keyword(s):

Monetary Policy ◽

Commercial Banks ◽

Central Banks ◽

Capital Regulation ◽

Bank Deposits ◽

Central Bank Money ◽

Money Creation ◽

Asset Purchases ◽

Bank Equity ◽

Bank Money

AbstractWe study today’s two-tier money creation and destruction system: Commercial banks create bank deposits (privately created money) through loans to firms or asset purchases from the private sector. Bank deposits are destroyed when households buy bank equity or when firms repay loans. Central banks create electronic central bank money (publicly created money or reserves) through loans to commercial banks. In a simple general equilibrium setting, we show that symmetric equilibria yield the first-best level of money creation and lending when prices are flexible, regardless of monetary policy and capital regulation. When prices are rigid, we identify the circumstances in which money creation is excessive or breaks down and the ones in which an adequate combination of monetary policy and capital regulation can restore efficiency. Finally, we provide a series of extensions and generalizations of the results.

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INFLATION TARGETING: IT'S NOT BROKE, IT DOESN'T NEED FIXING, BUT CAN IT SURVIVE?

Journal of International Commerce Economics and Policy ◽

10.1142/s1793993310000081 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 01 (01) ◽

pp. 59-80

Author(s):

PIERRE L. SIKLOS

Keyword(s):

Monetary Policy ◽

Inflation Targeting ◽

Global Financial Crisis ◽

Emerging Market ◽

Asset Price ◽

Central Banks ◽

Economic Downturn ◽

Price Increases ◽

The Global Financial Crisis ◽

Nominal Anchor

Until the end of 2005 there were few outward signs that the inflation targeting (IT) monetary policy strategy was deemed fragile or that the likelihood of abandoning it was high. In light of the severe economic downturn and the global financial crisis that has afflicted most economies around the world since at least 2008, it is worth reconsidering the question of the fragility of the inflation targeting regime. This paper reprises the approach followed in Siklos (2008) but adds important new twists. For example, the present study asks whether the continued survival of IT is due to the fact that some of the central banks in question did take account of changes in financial stress. The answer is no. Indeed, many central banks are seen as enablers of rapid asset price increases. The lesson, however, is not that inflation targeting needs to be repaired. Instead, refinements should be considered to the existing inflation targeting strategy which has evolved considerably since it was first introduced in New Zealand 20 years ago. Most notably, there should be continued emphasis on inflation as the primary nominal anchor of monetary policy, especially in emerging market economies (EME), even if additional duties are assigned to central banks in response to recent events.

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Central Banks and Monetary Policy

Macroeconomic Policy ◽

10.1007/978-1-4757-3646-5_11 ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 251-282

Author(s):

Farrokh K. Langdana

Keyword(s):

Monetary Policy ◽

Central Banks

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Testing for Asymmetric Central Bank Preferences

International Journal of Economics and Finance ◽

10.5539/ijef.v10n4p25 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 25

Author(s):

Felix S. Nyumuah

Keyword(s):

Monetary Policy ◽

Central Bank ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Central Banks ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Less Developed Countries ◽

Reaction Function ◽

Policy Rule ◽

Asymmetric Preferences ◽

Policy Reaction Function

The linear specification of the ideal monetary policy reaction function has been questioned in recent times by researchers. They have suggested a nonlinear framework where central banks exhibit asymmetric behaviours. Despite the important policy implications of having asymmetric central bank preferences, studies have been on single-country basis focusing almost entirely on advanced economies. The aim of this study is to check the existence of asymmetric preferences on the part of central banks in the context of a panel of countries and not just a single a country. The study derives and estimates a nonlinear flexible optimal monetary policy rule, which permits zone-like as well as asymmetric behaviours using panel data from a range of countries both developed and less developed. Although the findings indicate the presence of asymmetric preferences on the output gap across less developed countries, generally, the evidence is in favour of a linear policy reaction function and symmetric central bank preferences. These findings mean that monetary policy is characterised by a linear policy rule and symmetric central bank preferences. The results also indicate that interest rate ‘smoothing’ reaction by monetary authorities is more pronounced in less developed countries than in developed ones.

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