scholarly journals Competing With Bitcoin - Some Policy Considerations for Issuing Digitalized Legal Tenders

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arto Kovanen
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Rate Transmission ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Monetary Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Financing Of Terrorism ◽  
The Impact

The proliferation of peer-to-peer virtual alternatives to traditional banknotes has raised concerns among policymakers about the future of traditional means of making payments and how it might affect monetary policy implementation and its effectiveness. This study provides a brief overview of the existing research in this area. It compares positions taken in the literature by authors on some of the key policy issues relevant for central banks when thinking about the issuance of digitalized legal tenders. We examine the implications of government issued digital alternatives to traditional currencies for monetary policy effectiveness, payments and settlements, and financial market stability. We also discuss recent advances in financial technology to improve the making of payments and settlements, which might help contribute to financial inclusion. At the same time, new technologies represent challenges for regulatory authorities, for instance related to efforts to contain anti-money laundering and prevent financing of terrorism. A number of authors argue that government issued digital currency is necessary to address the flaws in private crypto currencies, and to improve monetary policy effectiveness. Central banks have begun to analyze possible features of digitalized legal tenders, to better understand the policy considerations involved and effects these could have for interest rate transmission and financial markets, but there is no clear consensus on key modalities associated with digitalized legal tenders. Moreover, many central banks do not regard privately issued virtual currencies as a serious threat to traditional currencies. Given the ongoing debate, it is difficult to make firm predictions about the impact of central bank issued digital currencies on monetary policy transmission and financial markets at this point.

scholarly journals Reputation, credibility and monetary policy effectiveness

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-698
Author(s):  
Gabriel Caldas Montes
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
The State ◽  
Monetary Authority ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Real Activity ◽  
Monetary Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Nominal Variables

As reputation and credibility are important elements for monetary policy effectiveness, the paper aims at exploring the concepts of both and its importance in a context where central banks policies are not neutral, that is, monetary policy affects real and nominal variables. The paper seeks to contribute with a new analysis of how the sort of reputation developed by the monetary authority affects the state of expectations, and then the economic performance, enabling a particular situation that we call "credibility trap" - which makes monetary policy ineffective to affect real activity when necessary. Although the paper presents some similarities to the orthodox approach regarding both reputation and credibility's importance for central banks and its policies, it is different from the orthodox approach speaking of distinct forms of monetary policy recommendations and the sort of reputation that it recommends to be developed.

scholarly journals A Review of the Impact of External Shocks on Monetary Policy Effectiveness in Non-WAEMU Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-59
Author(s):  
Kordzo Sedegah ◽  
Nicholas M. Odhiambo
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Capital Account ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Foreign Reserves ◽  
Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Exchange Rate Flexibility ◽  
Monetary Policy Effectiveness ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Effectiveness Of Monetary Policy

Abstract In this paper, the extant literature on the impact of external shocks on monetary policy effectiveness with reference to non-WAEMU countries is reviewed. The importance of this literature review is to provide contemporary perspectives to scholars and policymakers on the relevance of the incidence of external shocks to the effectiveness of monetary policy with reference to non-WAEMU countries. The literature reviewed in this study shows that, on the whole, the extent and the degree to which external shocks are transmitted to the domestic economy substantially depend on a plethora of features, namely the absence of exchange rate flexibility; a strong export concentration, especially with respect to commodities; the level of global economic integration; restricted capacities of production; the absence of competitiveness in exports; over-reliance on foreign aid; foreign reserves that are not adequate and capital account openness.

scholarly journals The Equilibrium on Money Market and the Central Bank Issuing Policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Richard Pospíšil
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Price Stability ◽  
Monetary Aggregate ◽  
Monetary Equilibrium ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The issue of money and establishing interest rates are the main activities of central banks. Th rough this, the banks immediately influence the behaviour of households, companies, financial markets and the state with the impact on real outcome, employment and prices. When monitoring the issue of money, it is necessary to focus not only on its volume, but also on the attributes and functions carried by money. Among the first economists who considered the quality monetary aspect were J. Locke, D. Hume, D. Ricardo and others. The founders of modern monetarism of the 20th century were I. Fisher and M. Friedman. Fisher was the first to define the equation of monetary equilibrium in the present-day form. The objective of the paper is to point out different approaches to the equation and its modifications and different meanings of its variables. As regards the monetary aggregate M - Money - the paper also deals with the denomination of the aggregate to its various elements, which is significant for fulfilling monetary policy targets. This approach is very important especially at present in the time of crisis when central banks are performing their policy considering contradictory targets of price stability and economic growth.

Reference Rates and Monetary Policy Effectiveness in Korea

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heung Soon Jung ◽  
Dong Jin Lee ◽  
Taehyo Gwon ◽  
Se Jin Yun
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Monetary Policy Effectiveness

Normative dimensions of central banking: How the guardians of financial markets affect justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dietsch
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Central Banking ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Introductory Section ◽  
The Impact

Monetary policy, and the response it elicits from financial markets, raises normative questions. This chapter, building on an introductory section on the objectives and instruments of monetary policy, analyzes two such questions. First, it assesses the impact of monetary policy on inequality and argues that the unconventional policies adopted in the wake of the financial crisis exacerbate inequalities in income and wealth. Depending on the theory of justice one holds, this impact is problematic. Should monetary policy be sensitive to inequalities and, if so, how? Second, the chapter argues that the leverage that financial markets have today over the monetary policy agenda undermines democratic legitimacy.

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