Money Knowledge or Money Myths? Results of a population survey on money and the monetary order

Divorcing Money from Monetary Policy

onetary policy has traditionally been viewed as the process by which a central bank uses its influence over the supply of money to promote its economic objectives. For example, Milton Friedman (1959, p. 24) defined the tools of monetary policy to be those “powers that enable the [Federal Reserve] System to determine the total amount of money in existence or to alter that amount.” In fact, the v...

Money and the International Monetary System

I have a personal reason for choosing this topic. For many years it has troubled me that some of my friends and colleagues view themselves as monetarists and analyze domestic policy from that perspective, while another group of my friends maintains that fixed exchange rates are the glue that holds the world economy together. From the perspective of that group, the world would be a better place ...

Money and monetary policy: The ECB experience

The paper analyses the practical experience of monetary analysis at the ECB since its beginning. The analysis is based on both a narrative description of the internal briefing and a quantitative evaluation of the forecast exercise. We exploit a rich data basis containing the vintages of data and models over the period in order to evaluate the role of money in the input and the output of monetar...

A Note on Money and the Conduct of Monetary Policy

Prior to the …nancial crisis mainstream monetary policy practice had become disconnected from money. We outline the basic rationale for this development using a simple model of money and credit in which we explore the conditions under which money matters directly for the conduct of policy. Then, drawing on Goodfriend and McCallum’s (2007) DSGE model, we examine the circumstances under which mon...

The Credit Money and State Money Approaches