Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31680 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 476
Publisher: 
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Abstract: 
One of the greatest achievements of the modern New Consensus” view in macroeconomics is the assertion of a nonquantity theoretic approach to monetary policy. Leading theorists and practitioners of this view have indeed rejected the quantity theory of money, and defended a return to the old Wicksellian idea of eliminating high levels of inflation by adjusting nominal interest rates to changes in the price level. This paper evaluates these recent developments in the theory and practice of monetary policy in terms of two basic questions: 1) What is the monetary policy instrument controlled by the central bank? and 2) Which macroeconomic variables are affected in the short and long run by monetary policy?
Subjects: 
Wicksell
monetary policy
New Consensus
endogenous Money
JEL: 
E5
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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