Financial globalization, financial frictions and optimal monetary policy

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How should monetary policy be optimally designed in an environment with high degrees of financial globalization? To answer this question we lay down an open economy model where net lending toward the rest of the world is constrained by a collateral constraint motivated by limited enforcement. Borrowing is secured by collateral in the form of durable goods whose accumulation is subject to adjustment costs. We demonstrate that, although this economy can generate persistent current account deficits, it can also deliver a stationary equilibrium. The comparison between different monetary policy regimes (floating versus pegged) shows that the impossible trinity is reversed: a higher degree of financial globalization, by inducing more persistent and volatile current account deficits, calls for exchange rate stabilization. Finally, we study the design of optimal (Ramsey) monetary policy. In this environment the policy maker faces the additional goal of stabilizing exchange rate movements, which exacerbate fluctuations in the wedges induced by the collateral constraint. In this context optimality requires deviations from price stability and calls for exchange rate stabilization.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1639

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Monetary Policy
• Thema: Global imbalances ; collateral constraints ; monetary regimes ; Geldpolitik ; Währungspolitik ; Internationaler Finanzmarkt ; Globalisierung ; Kreditmarkt ; Kreditsicherung ; Verschuldungsrestriktion ; Offene Volkswirtschaft ; Zahlungsbilanzungleichgewicht ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Faia, Ester ; Iliopulos, Esti
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (wo): Kiel
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37100
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ