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Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics

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Towards a New Paradigm for Monetary Economics presents a pioneer treatment of critical topics in monetary economics. Unlike the prevailing monetary theory, this book focuses not on the role of money in facilitating transactions, but on the role of credit in facilitating economic activities more broadly. The 'new paradigm' emphasizes the demand and supply of loanable funds, which in turn requires the understanding of the imperfections of information and the role of banks. One enlightening view is that credit is quite different from other commodities in the sense that the former is based on information and default risk. The book consists of two parts. The first part develops a basic model of credit based on banks' portfolio choices. The second part is dedicated to the policy implications, among which are the liberalization of financial markets, the East Asian Crisis, the 1991 US recession and the subsequent recovery.

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ISBN: 9780521008051
Publication date: 4th September 2003
Author: Joseph (Columbia University, New York) Stiglitz, Bruce (Columbia University, New York) Greenwald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 344 pages
Series: Raffaele Mattioli Lectures
Genres: Monetary economics
International economics