Monetary Theory: Overview and Liquidity Extensions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Price Level ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Linear Constraints ◽  
Relative Price ◽  
Monetary Theory ◽  
Quantitative Easing ◽  
Liquidity Shock ◽  
New Crop

The chapter points out some deficiencies of the mainstream model utilized by many central banks. It also reviews the Fiscal Theory of the Price level. Extending the barebones version of the central banks' model presented here to the case in which "land" is endowed with liquidity, the chapter shows, among other things, that if land is subject to Liquidity Crunch, increasing the supply of liquidity by pump-priming high-powered money fails to send land's relative price back to pre-liquidity-shock level. This helps to give a rationale for Quantitative Easing in which the central bank purchases "toxic assets" with high-powered money. The chapter includes extensions to account for banks and liquidity as a factor of production, and it ends with a critique of the new crop of financial crisis models, especially those stressing non-linear constraints.

The Liquidity Trap, Democracy and Central Bank Independence

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Lucian Croitoru
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Central Bank Independence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Quantitative Easing ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Liquidity Trap ◽  
Other Hand

Abstract In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks in developed countries performed unconventional operations that are fiscal in nature. On one hand, we support the view that such operations, which are not fully democratic, might lead to loss of central bank operational independence and discuss some difficulties that central banks might face when reversing quantitative easing. On the other hand, we show that, in the middle of a financial crisis, such operations are best performed by central banks. To avoid this potential conflict, the society needs to identify the best means by which the responsibility for quasi-fiscal operations implemented by the central bank is transferred to a democratic structure

Central Banks’ New Macroprudential Consensus

2019 ◽  
pp. 481-502
Author(s):  
Michael W. Taylor ◽  
Douglas W. Arner ◽  
Evan C. Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Price Level ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Monetary Stability ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

The traditional central bank consensus is designed around two mandates: monetary and financial stability. Following the Great Stagflation of the 1970s, central banks’ policy objective became biased toward maintaining a low and stable rate of inflation or monetary stability. This was based on the presumption that a stable price level would achieve both monetary and financial system stability. The deemphasis on financial stability remained until the global financial crisis, when the prevailing consensus was exposed for being thoroughly inadequate. A new consensus has emerged that broadens central banks’ financial stability mandate to include macroprudential supervision. This chapter analyzes the new central bank consensus, how this has resulted in institutional redesign, and the effectiveness of discharging postcrisis financial and monetary stability mandates.

scholarly journals Comparison of the Approach of the Czech National Bank and the European Central Bank to the Effects of the Global Financial Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-46
Author(s):  
Andrea Cecrdlova
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
European Central Bank ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
European Central ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

The latest global crisis, which fully erupted in 2008, can have a significant impact on central banks credibility in the long run. During the last crisis, monetary authorities encountered zero interest rate levels and, as a result, started to use non-standard monetary policy instruments. The Czech National Bank decided to use a less standard instrument in November 2013, when it started to intervene on the foreign exchange market in order to keep the Czech currency at level 27 CZK / EUR. However, the European Central Bank also adopted a non-standard instrument, when chose a path of quantitative easing in 2015 in order to support the euro area economy by purchasing financial assets. The question remains whether the approach of Czech National Bank or the approach of European Central Bank in the crisis and post-crisis period was a more appropriate alternative. With the passage of time from the global financial crisis, it is already possible to compare the approaches of these two central banks and at least partially assess what approach was more appropriate under the given conditions. When comparing the central banks approaches to the crisis, the Czech National Bank was better, both in terms of the rate of interest rate cuts and the resulting inflation with regard to the choice of a non-standard monetary policy instrument. The recent financial crisis has revealed the application of moral hazard in practice, both on behalf of the European Central Bank and the Czech National Bank, which may have a significant impact on their credibility and independence in the coming years.

Money creation in the modern economy: an appraisal

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Jacob Stevens ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Bank ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Quantitative Easing ◽  
Digital Currency ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
Money Creation ◽  
Floor System ◽  
Selection Of

This paper models a representative bank, and uses this model to explore the assumptions and implications of a selection of money-creation theories. It is shown that the money-supply process tends toward the logic of exogeneity as banks' fears about liquidity stress increases. At present, banks do not fear liquidity stress because central banks are operating under a floor system with a superabundance of reserves following unsterilized quantitative easing. Secondly, a role for a ‘central-bank digital currency’ is suggested as a useful complement to reserves policy in an economy with large or collusive banks.

Open Market Operations

2019 ◽  
pp. 435-454
Author(s):  
Jan Toporowski
Keyword(s):  
Central Bank ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Transmission Mechanism ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Monetary Transmission ◽  
Quantitative Easing ◽  
Open Market ◽  
Financial Systems

Open market operations are the buying and selling of securities by the central bank. Such operations differ from discount operations in that open market operations are undertaken at the initiative of the central bank rather than a commercial bank. Historically, such trading of securities has predated the setting of interest rates. The emergence of long-term finance and complex financial systems has extended the range of securities in which central banks may deal. Open market operations depend on the policy framework set by the central bank. But such operations are not necessary for the setting of interest rates. Such operations are often undertaken when the monetary transmission mechanism from interest rates appears to have failed, as in the case of recent quantitative easing operations. In general, open market operations have proved effective in times of banking or financial crisis.

Quantitative easing operations as an instrument of monetary policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
V. М. Usoskin
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Quantitative Easing ◽  
Considerable Impact

Quantitative easing operations (QE) carried out during the last ten years by world central banks have become a reaction to the weakness of traditional instruments used to counteract the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the following recession. This article reviews the peculiar features of QE, theoretical explanations of their influence on economic situation and the evidences of their efficiency as an instrument of monetary policy. The author concludes that QE exerted a considerable impact on financial markets processes but they were much less successful in reaching macroeconomic goals of monetary policy.

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