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Working Paper No. 1076
February 07, 2025
The Rise of the Modern Monetary System
AbstractThis working paper integrates the credit money approach (associated with Post Keynesian endogenous money theory) with the state money approach (associated with Modern Money Theory) by drawing on Wray’s 1990 book (Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies: The Endogenous Money Approach, Edward Elgar), his 1998 book (Understanding Modern Money: the Key to Full Employment and […]
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Working Paper No. 1075
January 23, 2025
The High Cost of the Strong Peso and Its Temporary Nature: The Case of Mexico
AbstractThe article analyzes why exchange rate stability has been prioritized in Mexico and why the national currency has appreciated; which policies and factors have made this possible, the costs and consequences of the strong peso, and its sustainability and temporality are also examined. Mexico’s economy does not have the endogenous conditions necessary to maintain such […]
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Working Paper No. 1072
December 12, 2024
Macro-Financial Models of Canadian Dollar Interest Rate Swap Yields
AbstractThis paper analyzes the dynamics of Canadian dollar–denominated (CAD) interest rate swap yields. It applies autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) models, using monthly time series data, to estimate the effects of the current short-term interest rate and other relevant macro-financial variables on interest rate swap yields. It shows that the current short-term interest rate is a […]
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Working Paper No. 1071
December 10, 2024
Tilting at Windmills
AbstractOriginally issued as EDI Working Paper No. 14, May 2023 The Central Bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has a dual mandate to maintain both full employment and price stability. However, inflation-fighting had always eclipsed the full employment objective without much accountability. Today, the Federal Reserve provides regular testimony before Congress on how […]
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Working Paper No. 1064
December 06, 2024
Seismic Shifts in Economic Theory and Policy from the Bernanke Doctrine to Modern Money Theory
AbstractOriginally issued as EDI Working Paper No. 08, 2022 This paper evaluates the relationship between monetary and fiscal policy and the relative effectiveness of macroeconomic stabilization through the lens of Modern Money Theory (MMT). We articulate previously-neglected aspects of monetary sovereignty to offer a new interpretation of the Bernanke Doctrine that emerged in the wake of […]
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Working Paper No. 1063
December 03, 2024
Fiscal and Monetary Policy in an SFC Model of the Italian Economy
AbstractFollowing the Great Financial Crisis of 2008–9, there has been a shift in mainstream economic policy modeling toward “realism,” with dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models partly diverging from the representative agent framework, and large-scale, New-Keynesian structural models addressing real-financial interactions in greater detail. Still, the need for tractability of the former, and the lack […]
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Policy Notes No. 1
October 11, 2024
The Boy Who Cried Wolf About Government Debt
AbstractIn a New York Times editorial, David Leonhardt recounts Aesop’s apocryphal story about the boy and the wolf, warning that while deficit hawks have so far been wrong, the growing government debt will eventually bite. He reports the economic plans of both presidential candidates would add to the debt that will soon exceed GDP and grow to 130 percent of annual output under a President Harris, or 140 percent with a Trump presidency.
The story of the boy and the wolf was a fable, although it was within the realm of possibility. The fable of the debt wolf is not. While there are real world wolves—Leonhardt mentions climate catastrophe and autocratic leaders, and the authors would add rising inequality and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of billionaires—authors Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray assert, federal debt is not one of them.
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Working Paper No. 1057
October 09, 2024
Rise and Fall of Mexican Super Peso: Heterodox Perspective versus Orthodoxy
AbstractThis working paper contrasts the neo-Keynesian and post-Keynesian theories of monetary policy for an open economy, highlighting the irrelevance of the orthodox theory and the explanatory capacity of heterodoxy for an emerging economy such as Mexico. It focuses on the role of the central bank and the case of the Mexican currency during the economic […]
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Working Paper No. 1048
April 19, 2024
An Empirical Analysis of Swedish Government Bond Yields
AbstractThis paper econometrically models the dynamics of Swedish government bond (SGB) yields. It examines whether the short-term interest rate has a decisive influence on long-term SGB yields, after controlling for other macroeconomic and financial variables, such as consumer price inflation, the growth of industrial production, the stock price index, the exchange rate of the Swedish […]
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Working Paper No. 1046
March 07, 2024
The Aggregate Production Function and Solow’s “Three Denials”
AbstractThis paper offers a retrospective view of the key pillar of Solow’s neoclassical growth model, namely the aggregate production function. We review how this tool came to life and how it has survived until today, despite three criticisms that undermined its raison d’être. They are the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies, the Aggregation Problem, and the […]
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Working Paper No. 1034
December 08, 2023
Euro Interest Rate Swap Yields: A GARCH Analysis
AbstractThis paper models the month-over-month change in euro-denominated (EUR) long-term interest rate swap yields. It shows that the change in the short-term interest rate has an economically and statistically significant effect on the change in EUR swap yields of different maturity tenors, after controlling for various macroeconomic and financial variables, such as the month-over-month change […]
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Working Paper No. 1025
August 01, 2023
Unconventional Monetary Policy or Automatic Stabilizers?
AbstractThe purpose of public policy, expansionary or contractionary, is to encourage the expansion of income, output, and employment. Theory decides the nature and kind of policy, and the underlying mechanics that result in expansion. Keynes (1964) brings money and a monetary production economy to the forefront of economic analysis, yet in the General Theory, he […]
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Working Paper No. 1016
February 23, 2023
Monetary Policy and the Gender and Racial Employment Dynamics in Brazil
AbstractMonetary policy has been historically concerned with controlling inflation, using the interest rate as its main tool. However, such policies are not gender- or race-neutral. This paper explores econometrically the effect of changes in the interest rate for female and black employment creation in Brazil. We conduct a panel data fixed effects analysis for 13 […]
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Working Paper No. 1015
February 20, 2023
CBDC Next-Level: A New Architecture for Financial “Super-Stability”
AbstractFractional reserve regimes generate fragile banking, and full reserve regimes (e.g., narrow banking) remove fragility at the cost of suppressing the role of banks as lenders. A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) could provide safe money, but at the cost of potentially disrupting bank lending. Our aim is to avoid this potential disruption. Building on […]
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Working Paper No. 1014
February 16, 2023
Chinese Yuan Interest Rate Swap Yields
AbstractThis paper models the dynamics of Chinese yuan (CNY)–denominated long-term interest rate swap yields. The financial sector plays a vital role in the Chinese economy, which has grown rapidly in the past several decades. Going forward, interest rate swaps are likely to have an important role in the Chinese financial system. This paper shows that […]
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Working Paper No. 1012
December 16, 2022
An Analysis of UK Swap Yields
AbstractJohn Maynard Keynes argued that the central bank influences the long-term interest rate through the effect of its policy rate on the short-term interest rate. However, Keynes's claim was confined to the behavior of the long-term government bond yield. This paper investigates whether Keynes's claim holds for the yields of spread products and over-the-counter financial […]
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One-Pager
December 07, 2022
The Causes of Pandemic Inflation
AbstractWhile the trigger for the Covid recession was unusual—a collapse of the supply side that produced a drop in demand—the inflation the US economy is now facing is not atypical, according to L. Randall Wray. In this one-pager, he explores the causes of the current inflationary environment, arguing that continuing inflation pressures come mostly from […]
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Working Paper No. 1011
September 27, 2022
The Dynamics of Monthly Changes in US Swap Yields
AbstractJohn Maynard Keynes (1930) asserted that the central bank sways the long-term interest rate through the influence of its policy rate on the short-term interest rate. Recent empirical research shows that Keynes's conjecture holds for long-term Treasury yields in the United States. This paper investigates whether Keynes's conjecture also holds for the monthly changes in […]
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Working Paper No. 1008
May 24, 2022
A GARCH Approach to Modeling Chilean Long-Term Swap Yields
AbstractThis paper econometrically models the dynamics of the Chilean interbank swap yields based on macroeconomic factors. It examines whether the month-over-month change in the short-term interest rate has a decisive influence on the long-term swap yield after controlling for other factors, such as the change in inflation, change in the growth of industrial production, change […]
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Working Paper No. 996
December 13, 2021
Seven Replies to the Critiques of Modern Money Theory
AbstractModern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political circles. MMT has been argued to be both fascist and […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 156
December 08, 2021
Still Flying Blind after All These Years
AbstractInstitute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray contend that the prevailing approach to monetary policy and inflation is influenced by a set of concepts that are a poor guide to action. In this policy brief, they examine two previous cases in which the Federal Reserve misread the data and raised rates […]
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One-Pager No. 68
November 01, 2021
Are Concerns over Growing Federal Government Debt Misplaced?
AbstractWith the US Treasury cutting checks totaling approximately $5 trillion to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray argues that when it comes to the federal government, concerns about affordability and solvency can both be laid to rest. According to Wray, the question is never whether the federal government can spend more, […]
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Working Paper No. 991
July 12, 2021
Multifactor Keynesian Models of the Long-Term Interest Rate
AbstractThis paper presents multifactor Keynesian models of the long-term interest rate. In recent years there have been a proliferation of empirical studies based on the Keynesian approach to interest rate modeling. However, standard multifactor models of the long-term interest rate in quantitative finance have not been yet incorporated Keynes’s insights about interest rate dynamics. Keynes’s […]
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Working Paper No. 988
June 04, 2021
A Keynesian Approach to Modeling the Long-Term Interest Rate
AbstractThere are several widely used benchmark models of the long-term interest rate in quantitative finance. However, these models have yet to incorporate Keynes’s valuable insights about interest rate dynamics. The Keynesian approach to interest rate dynamics can be readily incorporated in the benchmark models of the long-term interest rate. This paper modifies several benchmark interest […]
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