Monetary Transaction Costs and the Term Premium

By Raphael A Espinoza, Dimitrios P. Tsomocos

April 3, 2013

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Raphael A Espinoza, and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos Monetary Transaction Costs and the Term Premium, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

We show that, in a monetary equilibrium, trade and asset prices depend on both the supply of the liquidity by the Central Bank and the liquidity of assets and commodities. As a result, monetary aggregates are informative for the conduct of monetary policy. We also show asset prices are higher in liquidity-constrained states of nature. This generates a term premium even in absence of aggregate uncertainty. These results hold in any monetary economy with heterogeneous agents and short-term liquidity effects, where monetary costs act as transaction costs and the quantity theory of money is verified.

Subject: Asset prices, Commodities, Liquidity, Monetary base, Short term interest rates

Keywords: Risk premium, Spot interest rate, WP

Publication Details

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38
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Working Paper No. 2013/085
Stock No:

WPIEA2013085
ISBN:

9781484392331
ISSN:

1018-5941

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