Advances in Monetary Policy Design : Applications to the Gulf Monetary Union.

In response to the recent financial crisis, many countries have initiated monetary stimulus packages. Maintaining proper measures of monetary aggregates is of particular importance for such economic policies. However, many central banks worldwide use the simple-sum monetary indexes, which ignore the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Barnett, William A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Summary:In response to the recent financial crisis, many countries have initiated monetary stimulus packages. Maintaining proper measures of monetary aggregates is of particular importance for such economic policies. However, many central banks worldwide use the simple-sum monetary indexes, which ignore the liquidity characteristics of financial assets. Using the simple-sum indexes can produce misleading information, especially for broad monetary aggregates within which financial assets are not likel ..
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1299974082
9781299974081
9781443853330
144385333X