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History of economic thought


KRYCHEVSKA Tetiana 1

1Institute for Economics and Forecasting, NAS of Ukraine

Monetary policy as an institution to ensure confidence in money and banking system: logical-historical analysis

Ekon. teor. 2017; 3:64-100https://doi.org/10.15407/etet2017.03.064


ABSTRACT ▼

The article presents the logic of the evolution of monetary policy as an institution to ensure confidence in the currency and banking system from the 7th century BC to 1970th. Understanding of this logic is necessary for policy making as well as for institutional construction. It comprises the stages of recursive support of trust in currency and the authority of the sovereign; quality assurance of coins by deposit-clearing banks; support of foreign expansion of the states by central banks; the birth of banking system stability goal for central banks activity due to the formation of a centralized reserve system; support of domestic confidence in the currency through the foreign confidence; different a combinations of monetary and fiscal policy, depending on the challenges changing the role of government and markets in the economy and changes in the behavior of economic agents responding to public policy.

Keywords: trust in the monetary unit, trust in banking system, coin, sovereign, deposit and settlement bank, state, central bank, monetary policy, fiscal policy, rational expectations, time inconsistency, monetary regime, credibility of monetary policy


JEL: N10

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