Money Still Matters AEI Panel March 22, 2013 David Beckworth, Western Kentucky University.
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Transcript of Money Still Matters AEI Panel March 22, 2013 David Beckworth, Western Kentucky University.
Money Lessons Learned
• Traditional View of Money too NarrowoRetail Money Assets• Cash, checking accounts, saving and time deposits, money market accounts
o Institutional Money Assets• Treasury bills, MBS, commercial paper, repos
Recap• Supply of Safe Assets Decreased• Demand for Safe Assets
Increased• Safe Asset Shortage • Transaction Asset or Money
Shortage• Shortfall of Total Dollar Spending
Role for Fed Policy• Return Total Dollar Spending to
Pre-crisis Growth PathoDemand for financial intermediation
will increaseoPrivate safe asset production will
increase
• Don’t Target Money SupplyoEven though money still matters…oStable NGDP growth implies stable
monetary conditions