Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with Credit Goods Production

Download or read book Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with Credit Goods Production written by Mr.Jorge A. Chan-Lau and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper analyzes the effects of monetary policy in a dynamic model of a small open economy with cash and credit goods production, where government consumption is financed by seignorage. It shows that the interrelationships between the growth rate of the monetary aggregate and the technological properties of the economy have an important bearing on the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium, the optimal inflation rate, and the occurrence of explosive hyperinflations. In consequence, the paper concludes that monetary policy does matter in the long run.