Inside Money and Monetary Neutrality

No 1890, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines the interaction between the financial and real sectors of the economy within the framework of a stochastic, rational expectation model that distinguishes between inside and outside money. The model also can be used to study the impact of variations in the degree of intermediation, measured by the elasticity of bank deposit supply. In contrast to earlier work which emphasized confusion between monetary and real shocks, we focus on the role played by confusion between inside and outside money and temporary and permanent base money disturbances. Financial sector disturbances, as well as temporary shocks tothe monetary base, are shown to have real effects even when private agents have complete information. When contemporaneous information on economic disturbances is incomplete, permanent shocks to the monetary base also have real effects. If our model is correct, it is invalid to reject equilibrium models of the business cycle on the grounds that anticipated money affects output. We argue that this result is robust in the sense that many "reasonable" models which incorporate inside money would yield a non-neutrality of portfolio and temporary base money supply shocks.

Date: 1986-04
Note: ME
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Published as Hartley, Peter R. and Carl E. Walsh, "Inside Money and Monetary Neutrality," Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 13, no. 3 (Summer 1991), pp. 395-416.

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w1890.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Inside money and monetary neutrality (1991)
Working Paper: Inside money and monetary neutrality (1986)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:1890

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w1890

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().