| Description |
1 online resource (71 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
IMF working paper ; WP/12/202
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IMF working paper ; WP/12/202.
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| Note |
Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Aug. 13, 2012). |
| Summary |
At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary and credit functions of the banking system, by requiring 100% reserve backing for deposits. Irving Fisher (1936) claimed the following advantages for this plan: (1) Much better control of a major source of business cycle fluctuations, sudden increases and contractions of bank credit and of the supply of bank-created money. (2) Complete elimination of bank runs. (3) Dramatic reduction of the (net) public debt. (4) Dramatic reduction of private debt, as money creation no longer requires simultaneous debt creation. We study these claims by embedding a comprehensive and carefully calibrated model of the banking system in a DSGE model of the U.S. economy. We find support for all four of Fisher's claims. Furthermore, output gains approach 10 percent, and steady state inflation can drop to zero without posing problems for the conduct of monetary policy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
"Research Department." |
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"August 2012." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chicago school of economics.
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Chicago school of economics. |
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Banks and banking -- United States -- Econometric models.
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Banks and banking. |
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United States. |
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Econometric models. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kumhof, Michael.
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International Monetary Fund. Research Department.
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| ISBN |
1475562209 electronic book |
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9781475562200 electronic book |
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