Monetary Theory as a Basis for Monetary Policy by Axel Leijonhufvud (eds.)

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Priee level expectations will tend to be inelastic, to use the old Hieksian term. Current money supply figures will have little or no information content for price setters. 22 Under such regimes, monetary policy stimuli reduce market interest rates, rather than raise them, and movements of the interest rate are seen as mainly real rate movements, although they may have a partial Fisher premium component as weIl. For a central bank to have some, even if limited, leverage over real magnitudes, it is crucial that the general expectation of this mean reversion tendency be the rational expectation.

A confrontation of this situation is timely. General equilibrium theory serves to check the consistency of models and to bring out some of their properties. Surprisingly, an enquiry into monetary theory from the perspective of general equilibrium leads to conclusions that resemble views expressed recently by specialists in monetary theory and policy, and suggests an approach to policy resembling that practised by monetary authorities. Also, it delineates theoretical issues more sharply than do less abstract formulations.

L}; bundles of commodities are x = (... J = {l, ... ,/1; each firm is described by yi, a set of feasible production plans, yi and (i) commodities, I DrezelPolemarchakis: Equilibrium Theory and Monetary Policy 3S (iii) individuals m households, i E I = {1, .. ,l}; each individual is described by Zi, a set of feasible net trades in commodities, Zi, including prestations of labour; R i, a preference ordering on Zi; and (i, the endowment of shares in firms. An allocation is an array a = (... , yi, ...

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