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Author:Hetzel, Robert L. 

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What Caused the Great Recession in the Eurozone?

Since 2008, the Eurozone has undergone two recessions, which together constitute the "Great Recession." The combination of a decline in output and disinflation as well as a persistent decline in inflation suggests that contractionary monetary policy was one factor. This paper makes two methodological points. First, in analyzing the causes of the Great Recession, it is important to distinguish between credit and monetary policy. Second, a multiplicity of estimated models can "explain" the Great Recession. In practice, economists choose between models through an associated narrative that ...
Working Paper , Paper 16-10

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M2 and monetary policy

Consistent with its mandate in the Humphrey-Hawkins Act of 1978, the Federal Reserve System each year sets a calendar-year target for the monetary aggregate M2. This paper examines the effect of specifying the M2 target as a multiyear trend line and concludes that an operationally significant target for M2 in the form of a trend line that rises at three percent per year will eliminate inflation.
Economic Review , Volume 75 , Issue Sep , Pages 14-29

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Indexed bonds as an aid to monetary policy

A measure of the publics expectation of inflation would assist the Fed in formulating monetary policy. In order to create such a measure, the U.S. Treasury could issue its debt in two forms: standard debt and debt indexed for inflation. The difference in yield on these two forms of debt would measure the publics expectation of inflation.
Economic Review , Volume 78 , Issue Jan , Pages 13-23

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German monetary history in the first half of the twentieth century

Economic Quarterly , Issue Win , Pages 1-35

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The Taylor rule : is it a useful guide to understanding monetary policy?

Economic Quarterly , Issue Spr , Pages 1-33

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The cause of the dollar depreciation

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Economic Review , Volume 64 , Issue May , Pages 15-27

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ECB monetary policy in the recession: a New Keynesian (old monetarist) critique

Use of the New Keynesian model to identify shocks points to contractionary monetary policy as the cause of the Great Recession in the Eurozone.
Working Paper , Paper 13-07

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Should increased regulation of bank risk-taking come from regulators or from the market?

The heavy losses in bank asset portfolios do not reflect an inherent failure of markets to monitor risk adequately but rather the perverse incentives of the financial safety net to excessive risk-taking. The unsustainable rise in house prices and their subsequent sharp decline derived from the combination of a public policy to expand home ownership to unrealistic levels and from a financial safety net that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.
Economic Quarterly , Volume 95 , Issue Spr , Pages 161-200

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The quantity theory tradition and the role of monetary policy

An abstract for this article is not available.
Economic Review , Volume 67 , Issue May , Pages 19-26

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Free enterprise and central banking in formerly communist countries

According to this article, if the formerly Communist countries of Eastern Europe are to become free market economies, they will have to define and enforce property rights and allow prices to signal supply and demand conditions. Further, the article suggests that the market economy and integration into the world economy would be enhanced by adopting the currency of a large Western country, thereby eliminating the need for a central bank.
Economic Review , Volume 76 , Issue May , Pages 13-19

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