Well before the global financial crisis, the stance of fiscal policy in a number of countries had raised concerns about risks for the outcomes of monetary policy. To provide some insights this paper examines the fiscal-monetary interactions in a novel game theory framework with asynchronous timing of moves. It generalizes the standard commitment concept of Stackelberg leadership by making it dy...

Since 2007, many monetary authorities have drastically changed its monetary policy. They began an aggressive struggle with the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Despite the substantial decline in Central banks interest rates in US and EMU and despite the sharp easining of monetary policy in many other countries, the cost of credit to both households and businesses has generall...

The history of monetary policy in Iran, judging by their performance in keeping the value of the currency, maintaining a steady growth in the Gross Domestic Product, faltering investment, show that monetary policy has not been a portrait of consistent successes, to say the least. As a result of the recent studies two rules have emerged as guideline for policy makers: Taylor rule and McCallum ru...

The paper investigates the public’s attitude towards monetary union arrangements associated with different levels of monetary policy autonomy. The results indicate that support for monetary union declines significantly with expected loss of autonomy. Survey data from Kenya shows that public support for the proposed East African Community monetary union is highest in an arrangement where the cou...

this research estimates the monetary value of internet information for each type of information and services by using hedonic pricing method. the statistic social of this research is high-speed internet users in tehran. based on the results, high speed internet users of tehran consider a positive monetary value for some information types in the internet, in descendent respect, such as film down...

this paper tests the importance of real shocks as sources of fluctuations in iran’s economy. for this purpose, based on the work of boschen and mills, a set of non-monetary variables which can affect economic growth have been selected and by using an illustrative business cycle model in which the production depends on the past and current value of real shocks, the influence 01’ these variables ...

Any economic agent constituting the monetary economy maintains the activity of monetary flow equilibration for fulfilling the condition of monetary flow continuity in the record, except at the central bank. At the same time, monetary flow equilibration at one economic agent constantly induces at other agents in the economy further flow disequilibrium to be eliminated subsequently. We propose th...

T his paper examined whether monetary policy is acyclical, procyclical or countercyclical and the implications of the interaction of such cyclicality with industrial output on real economic growth in Nigeria. After determining the time series properties of the variables and based on conventional cyclicality measures, the fully modified ordinary least square method was used to examine...