Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.(Industrial Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 1999. / Summaries in Afrikaans and English. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fordham University, 2008. / Adviser: Henry M. Schwalbenberg. Includes bibliographical references.

The Federal Reserve has proposed a change in its method of administering the discount window. This paper looks at the effects of this proposal on monetary control and on the money markets, assuming that banks base their behavior on profit maximization over the long run. First, the reserve supply process is postulated. The conditions under which borrowing from the Federal Reserve will improve or reduce monetary control are stated. Second, the primary reserve adjustment process is formulated to show how primary reserve adjustment can affect rates in the money market. Finally arguments are set forth to show how borrowed reserves would behave if commercial banks are attempting to maximize long run profits and under the discount window administration proposed by the Federal Reserve Committee. The conclusion is that borrowed reserves will behave to reduce money market instability but at the same time they will behave to reduce the Federal Reserve control over the stock of Reserves available to the banking system. Borrowing from the Federal Reserve Bank can be expected to behave in a way of offset Federal Reserve open market operations.

Univ., Diss.--Paderborn, 2004.

O termo realocação da poupança interna se refere ao fato de que os instrumentos de política econômica e de planejamento econômico que passam a possibilitar o autofinanciamento do Estado pelo mecanismo de emissão monetária só podem ser materializados por meio do lado real da economia, através da reestruturação do processo de formação da poupança interna. Realocação, neste caso, vem a ser sinônimo de “reutilização” e “alavancagem”, isto é, os instrumentos de formação das finanças públicas são determinados por um mecanismo de criação e de destruição automáticas de moeda e de posterior reutilização da mesma moeda emitida anteriormente. Neste sistema, o Estado determina o volume de recursos públicos através da emissão monetária, pelo fato desta moeda possuir “lastro fiduciário”, em razão de sua respectiva “destruição automática” no momento exato de sua criação. / The term reallocation of domestic saving refers to the fact that the instruments of economic policy and economic planning that allow the self-financing of the State from its own currency by the mechanism of monetary emission can only be materialized in the real economy by the restructuring of the process of formation of the domestic saving. Reallocation in this case comes to be synonymous with “reuse” and “leverage”, that is, public finance techniques are determined by a mechanism for automatic creating and destruction of currency, and subsequent reuse of the same currency issued formerly. In this system, the State determines the amount of available public resources through monetary emission, given that this currency has “real fiduciary backing” based on its respective “automatic destruction” at the exact moment of its creation.

O termo realocação da poupança interna se refere ao fato de que os instrumentos de política econômica e de planejamento econômico que passam a possibilitar o autofinanciamento do Estado pelo mecanismo de emissão monetária só podem ser materializados por meio do lado real da economia, através da reestruturação do processo de formação da poupança interna. Realocação, neste caso, vem a ser sinônimo de “reutilização” e “alavancagem”, isto é, os instrumentos de formação das finanças públicas são determinados por um mecanismo de criação e de destruição automáticas de moeda e de posterior reutilização da mesma moeda emitida anteriormente. Neste sistema, o Estado determina o volume de recursos públicos através da emissão monetária, pelo fato desta moeda possuir “lastro fiduciário”, em razão de sua respectiva “destruição automática” no momento exato de sua criação. / The term reallocation of domestic saving refers to the fact that the instruments of economic policy and economic planning that allow the self-financing of the State from its own currency by the mechanism of monetary emission can only be materialized in the real economy by the restructuring of the process of formation of the domestic saving. Reallocation in this case comes to be synonymous with “reuse” and “leverage”, that is, public finance techniques are determined by a mechanism for automatic creating and destruction of currency, and subsequent reuse of the same currency issued formerly. In this system, the State determines the amount of available public resources through monetary emission, given that this currency has “real fiduciary backing” based on its respective “automatic destruction” at the exact moment of its creation.

O termo realocação da poupança interna se refere ao fato de que os instrumentos de política econômica e de planejamento econômico que passam a possibilitar o autofinanciamento do Estado pelo mecanismo de emissão monetária só podem ser materializados por meio do lado real da economia, através da reestruturação do processo de formação da poupança interna. Realocação, neste caso, vem a ser sinônimo de “reutilização” e “alavancagem”, isto é, os instrumentos de formação das finanças públicas são determinados por um mecanismo de criação e de destruição automáticas de moeda e de posterior reutilização da mesma moeda emitida anteriormente. Neste sistema, o Estado determina o volume de recursos públicos através da emissão monetária, pelo fato desta moeda possuir “lastro fiduciário”, em razão de sua respectiva “destruição automática” no momento exato de sua criação. / The term reallocation of domestic saving refers to the fact that the instruments of economic policy and economic planning that allow the self-financing of the State from its own currency by the mechanism of monetary emission can only be materialized in the real economy by the restructuring of the process of formation of the domestic saving. Reallocation in this case comes to be synonymous with “reuse” and “leverage”, that is, public finance techniques are determined by a mechanism for automatic creating and destruction of currency, and subsequent reuse of the same currency issued formerly. In this system, the State determines the amount of available public resources through monetary emission, given that this currency has “real fiduciary backing” based on its respective “automatic destruction” at the exact moment of its creation.

La crise financière mondiale qui a débuté en 2008, et la crise des dettes souveraines en zone euro qui l'a suivie, ont successivement forcé les macroéconomistes à repenser leur cadre conceptuel. Cette thèse est une modeste contribution aux efforts colossaux déployés par les macroéconomistes à travers le monde pour faire face à ce défi: renforcer la compréhension de l'utilisation optimale des outils de politique économique non conventionnels. A cette fin, elle est construite en deux parties. Chaque partie vise à explorer au plan théorique un "contexte macroéconomique-type" au sein duquel des outils de politique économique non conventionnels ont été employés ces dernières années. La première partie, intitulée "Politique Non Conventionelle Optimale en Economie Ouverte", analyse l'utilisation optimale d'instruments de politique économique non conventionels par une banque centrale en économie ouverte. En présence de frictions financières qui modifient la manière dont la politique monétaire affecte l'économie, ou en présence de chocs exogènes qui mettent en défaut la "divine coïncidence", cette partie décrit comment un banquier central devrait combiner un instrument de politique monétaire non conventionnelle et la politique monétaire conventionnelle à des fins de stabilisation macroéconomique. La seconde partie, "Politique Budgétaire Optimale en Union Monétaire", adopte le point de vue du gouvernement d'un pays situé en union monétaire (typiquement la zone euro). Un tel pays ne disposant d'une politique monétaire autonome (au plan national), cette partie étudie la possibilité pour un tel pays d'utiliser la politique budgétaire comme un outil de stabilisation, et décrit l'utilisation optimale des dévaluations fiscales en réponse à des chocs exogènes idiosyncratiques. / The 2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent euro area sovereign debt crisis successively forced macroeconomists to reassess this conceptual framework. This thesis is a modest contribution to the huge efforts undertaken by macroeconomists following the crisis to meet this challenge, i.e. to develop some insights about the optimal use of unconventional policy tools. To do so, this thesis is twofold. Each part intends to explore from a theoretical perspective a fundamental macroeconomic situation that called for the use of unconventional policy instruments in the recent years. The first part, ”Optimal Unconventional Policy in An Open Economy” analyzes the optimal use of unconventional policy instruments by the central bank in an open economy framework. Assuming that the presence of financial frictions changes the way monetary policy affects the economy, or that the occurence of exogenous shocks breaks the ”divine coincidence”, this part describes how a central bank should combine an unconventional policy instrument and conventional monetary policy to favor macroeconomic stabilization. The second part, ”Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union”, takes the standpoint of the governement of a country located in a currency union (typically the euro area). Such a country being deprived of monetary policy autonomy, this part considers the opportunity of using fiscal policy as a stabilization tool, and describes the optimal use of fiscal devaluations following idiosyncratic exogenous shocks.

This paper investigates empirically the interest rate channel of the transmission mechanism of the monetary policy in Peru. Using monthly data for the six largest banks for the period June 2003 – June 2010 we study the two main policy instruments used under the inflation-target regime: the rate of monetary policy and the required bank reserves rate. We fit a dynamic panel data model obtaining two fundamental results. First, increases in the rate of monetary policy affectpositively and significantly the interest rates on commercial loans charged by the six largest banks of the country. Second, no evidence is found that the required bank reserves rate on deposits in Peruvian currency / Este trabajo evalúa empíricamente el canal de tasas de interés en el mecanismo de transmisión de la política monetaria en el Perú, durante el periodo junio 2003-junio 2010, empleando datos mensuales de bancos individuales. Se estudian los dos principales instrumentos de política utilizados bajo el régimen de metas de inflación: la tasa de política monetaria y la tasa de encaje.Utilizando un modelo de datos de panel dinámico, nuestro trabajo tiene dos resultados básicos. En primer lugar, un alza de la tasa de interés de referencia tiene un impacto positivo y significativo sobre las tasas de interés de los préstamos comerciales fijadas por los seis bancos más grandes del país. En segundo lugar, no encontramos evidencia que sugiera que la tasa de encaje a los depósitos en moneda nacional influye sobre estas mismas tasas de interés fijadas por estos seisbancos durante el periodo analizado.