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Monetary Regimes, Money Supply, And The Usa Business Cycle Since 1959: Implications For Monetary Policy Today

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  • Hollander, Hylton
  • Christensen, Lars

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The monetary authority’s choice of operating procedure has significant implications for the role of monetary aggregates and interest rate policy on the business cycle. Using a dynamic general equilibrium model, we show that the type of endogenous monetary regime, together with the interaction between money supply and demand, does well to capture the actual behavior of a monetary economy—the USA. The results suggest that the evolution toward a stricter interest rate-targeting regime renders central bank balance sheet expansions ineffective. In the context of the 2007–2009 Great Recession, a more flexible interest rate-targeting regime would have led to a significant monetary expansion and more rapid economic recovery in the USA.

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  • Hollander, Hylton & Christensen, Lars, 2022. "Monetary Regimes, Money Supply, And The Usa Business Cycle Since 1959: Implications For Monetary Policy Today," Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 26(7), pages 1806-1832, October.
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