Monetary Economics And Policy

A unified framework for understanding monetary policy, including recent unprecedented interventions by central banksOver the past two decades, monetary policy has been deployed in unprecedented ways, as central banks attempted to mitigate the adverse consequences of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the COVID-19 global lockdown, and recent inflationary surges. In Monetary Economics and Policy, Pierpaolo Benigno offers a new way to understand the potency and effectiveness of monetary policy, presenting a unified modeling framework to analyze policy challenges posed by both paper and digital currency systems. He investigates current theoretical and policy controversies, drawing connections with historical themes in monetary economics.Benigno examines how central banks control the value of their currency amid competition from cryptocurrencies and private money-like securities, discusses the desirability of inflation targeting for macroeconomic stabilization, and explores theoretical...