Some Alternative Monetary Facts

By Peter Stella, Manmohan Singh, Apoorv Bhargava

January 8, 2021

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Peter Stella, Manmohan Singh, and Apoorv Bhargava. Some Alternative Monetary Facts, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

In this paper, we discuss the modern history of monetarism and its alternatives, as well as the changing empirical relationship of various measures of money and inflation. After demonstrating that previous naïve correlations between money and inflation as established in the 20th century literature have largely disappeared, we explain why this cannot be taken as support for an increased reliance on permanent monetary finance. Rather, we argue that rapid technological innovation in payments systems—both public and private—including in global pledged collateral markets, portends a declining demand for central bank liabilities.

Subject: Currencies, Demand for money, Inflation, Monetary aggregates, Monetary base

Keywords: Balance sheet expansion, Bank reserves, Central bank balance sheet, Financial market, Interest rate, Monetary financing, Money aggregates, Money demand, WP

Publication Details

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39
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Working Paper No. 2021/006
Stock No:

WPIEA2021006
ISBN:

9781513566429
ISSN:

1018-5941

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