Usage optimal des instruments monétaires en régime de changes flexibles

  • Mélitz, Jacques
Publication date
January 1979
Publisher
JSTOR
ISSN
0035-2764
Citation count (estimate)
1

Abstract

The optimal exercice of the instruments of monetary policy under flexible exchange rates Suppose the monetary authorities have two targets, one for output and one for the price level, and they need to set the values of two instruments in order simultaneously to attain both targets. Their three possible choices of instruments are (1) the quantity of money and the exchange rate, (2) the quantity of money and the interest rate on non-traded debt, and (3) this last interest rate and the exchange rate. As in Poole's presentation, stochastic elements provide a basis for the choice. Because of the price level objective, thé ground for the exercise of the monetary instrument is wider than in Poole's model. On the other hand, a short-term preoccupa...

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