The `Buffer Stock Notion in Monetary Economics

Dissertation Essays on Monetary Economics Essays on Monetary Economics

This dissertation consists of three essays on monetary economics. The rst two essays have a focus on the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate (ZLB) and the Great Recession. In the rst essay, I investigate optimal discretionary monetary policy under the ZLB in the case of a distorted steady state due to monopoly and taxation. I nd that the central bank in a more distorted economy would ...

The Impact of Monetary Policy on the Stock Market Returns and Instability: Comparison of Monetary Policy Tools in Iran

After the recent financial crisis, especially the financial crisis 2008, This raises the important question of what is the role of monetary policy in occurrence and  prevention of the financial  instability? so, this paper investigate the dynamics impact of monetary policy on the stock market returns and instability using Structural Vector Autoregression (SVARs) model During the period  1992:q2...

The Infinite Horizon Buffer Stock Model

Stock Market Uncertainty and the Analysis of Monetary Policy shock

Policy makers impose policies to improve economy circumstance in order to achieve economic goals. However, the consequence of these policies along with the intended goals will also influence expectations, fluctuations, etc., and cause changes in levels of uncertainty. The important role of the stock market in the economy, makes it important to examine its uncertainty and its interaction with mo...

Forecast Design in Monetary Capital Stock Measurement

We design a procedure for measuring the United States capital stock of money implied by the Divisia monetary aggregate service flow, in a manner consistent with the present-value model of economic capital stock. We permit non-martingale expectations and time varying discount rates. Based on Barnett’s (1991) definition of the economic stock of money, we compute the U.S. economic stock of money b...