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Fundamental Paper Wealth and Monetary Policy

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Junning Cai (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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This paper articulates three insights regarding asset prices and monetary policy: (1) Asset price appreciation due to monetary expansion, despite its “paper” wealth nature, tends to make current consumers as a whole wealthier; (2) the wealth effect of monetary policy (on consumption) is negatively correlated with Tobin’s q effect (on investment), which positively depends on investment elasticity; and (3) the soundness of asset market performances does not depend on whether they are fundamental or not, but on their compatibility with the AD-AS balance in the long run. These basic insights and their implications reveal some limitations of monetary policy as a stabilization policy, clarify some misperceptions on fundamental asset prices, and provide a rationale for monetary policy to react directly to asset market performances.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Macroeconomics with number 0309001.

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Date of creation: 01 Sep 2003
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Keywords: Fundamental Paper Wealth; Wealth Effect; Bubbles; Monetary Policy;

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  1. Junning Cai & Byron Gangnes, 2004. "Open Capital Account: Concrete Wealth or Paper Wealth," International Finance 0401002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  2. Junning Cai, 2004. "Liquidity Trap Prevention and Escape: A Simple Proposition," Macroeconomics 0402033, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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