Prices and Production
Author: Friedrich August Hayek
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 194
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Author: Friedrich August Hayek
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julio J. Rotemberg
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 39
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Woodford
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-12-12
Total Pages: 805
ISBN-13: 1400830168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned money-growth targets as practical guidelines for monetary policy as well. How then can pure "fiat" currencies be managed so as to create confidence in the stability of national units of account? Interest and Prices seeks to provide theoretical foundations for a rule-based approach to monetary policy suitable for a world of instant communications and ever more efficient financial markets. In such a world, effective monetary policy requires that central banks construct a conscious and articulate account of what they are doing. Michael Woodford reexamines the foundations of monetary economics, and shows how interest-rate policy can be used to achieve an inflation target in the absence of either commodity backing or control of a monetary aggregate. The book further shows how the tools of modern macroeconomic theory can be used to design an optimal inflation-targeting regime--one that balances stabilization goals with the pursuit of price stability in a way that is grounded in an explicit welfare analysis, and that takes account of the "New Classical" critique of traditional policy evaluation exercises. It thus argues that rule-based policymaking need not mean adherence to a rigid framework unrelated to stabilization objectives for the sake of credibility, while at the same time showing the advantages of rule-based over purely discretionary policymaking.
Author: Mr.Bankim Chadha
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1996-10-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1451853165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper examines the distribution of output around capacity when money demand is a nonlinear function of the nominal interest rate such that nominal interest rates cannot become negative. When fluctuations in output result primarily from disturbances to the money market, the variance of output is shown to be an increasing function of the trend inflation rate. When they result from disturbances to the goods market, the variance of output is a decreasing function of the trend inflation rate. When both disturbances are significant, there exists, in general, a critical non-zero trend inflation rate that minimizes the variance of output.
Author: Roy Green
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1349223883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book challenges the conventional view that monetarism is a necessary part of classical economics and shows, in an historical account of monetary controversy, that the framework upon which classical analysis is based suggests an alternative account of the inflationary process. A corollary of the argument is that the monetarist approach is a logically necessary component of neoclassical analysis and that any attempt to criticise that approach in a fundamental way must involve an explicit rejection of the conceptual structure of neoclassical economics.
Author: Julio Rotemberg
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-07-23
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9781330418819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Money, Output, and Prices Evidence From a New Monetary Aggregate How monetary shocks affect prices and real activity are two of the central questions in macroeconomics. The implications of various theoretical models addressing these issues have been explored in literally hundreds of empirical papers. Despite the substantial interest in what money does, there is little consensus on what money is. Most previous empirical studies use relatively arbitrary rules in deciding which assets are monetary, and which are not. By choosing to study how the monetary base, or M1, or M2, affects prices and real activity, researchers implicitly made judgments about the identity of monetary assets. Narrow definitions of money, such as the base, exclude a variety of assets that provide liquidity services. Broader definitions, such as M2, give equal weight to a variety of assets with arguably quite different liquidities. This is hardly more defensible than constructing a measure of GNP by adding together the physical volume of output in different industries! A more attractive approach involves weighting different assets by the value of the monetary services they provide. This principle underlies Barnett's(1980) derivation of Divisia monetary aggregates. The continued widespread use of conventional aggregates is particularly surprising, since research has repeatedly shown Divisia aggregates to be at least as good at predicting GNP. In this paper we propose a new monetary aggregate, the currency-equivalent (CE) aggregate, which is related to the Divisia aggregates. The CE aggregate is a time-varying weighted average of the stocks of different monetary assets, with weights which depend on each asset's yield relative to that on a benchmark "zero liquidity" asset. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Julio Rotemberg
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-04
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780428342364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Money, Output, and Prices Evidence From a New Monetary Aggregate Some assets can readily be used for transactions. Individuals pay for the liquidity that these assets offer by foregoing the higher expected returns that are available on other, less liquid assets. Holding one dollar in currency costs more than holding one dollar in a now account, and it presumably generates greater liquidity services. We formalize this idea by assuming that individuals derive utility from holding certain assets. Our results could also be obtained by assuming that individuals and firms incur transactions costs which depend negatively on asset-holdings and positively on the volume of transactions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Olivier J. Blanchard
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy movements in nominal money appear to have strong and lasting effects on real activity is one of the most difficult questions in macroeconomics. The paper surveys the state of knowledge on the issue. with a focus on recent developments. The paper starts by reviewing the evolution of thought from Keynes' emphasis on wages to the "wage price mechanism" of the early 1970's. as well as the facts on the relation between money. prices and output. Prom this review. it concludes that the intellectual crisis of the 1970's came not from the inability of the prevailing theory to explain the facts -which it had mostly right-. but from the weakness of its theoretical foundations. The paper then examines the reconstruction effort. Two alternative strategies have been followed. The first has been to break with previous research and explore how far models based on perfect competition and imperfect information could go in explaining the effects of money on activity. This strategy has largely fizzled and its proponents moved away from the money-output issue. The second has been instead to explore whether the many insights of previous research could be made more rigorous and has focused on the potential role of imperfect competition in labor and goods markets ; substantial progress has been made. but no grand synthesis has emerged. nor is likely to in the foreseeable future
Author: Geoffrey Wood
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
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Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781781959244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sets out, in straightforward, accessible terms, crucial aspects of monetary economics. It opens with an exposition of the fundamental question of what money is and what it does. Distinguished contributors then examine the key role of price stability and how to achieve it. Core issues addressed include: an examination of the long run effect of money on prices an analysis of the complex and variable relationship between money and fluctuations in the real economy an investigation of inflation and its dangerous consequences an analysis of the effect of regulation on the stability of financial systems in developed and developing countries the relationship between the money supply regime and economic performance the effect of monetary fluctuations on the interest rate the choice of targets for monetary policy. This book will be extremely useful to practising economists, students and scholars of financial and monetary economics.