Tag: Interest Rate
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Currency Devaluation: Exports > Imports
Currency devaluation means a reduced value of currency with respect to foreign currencies and its reduced purchasing power to foreign goods, which result from monetary policy. In a small open economy, as such the assumptions of the Mundell-Fleming model, currency devaluation can result from expansionary monetary policy, referring to the…
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Recession & Recovery – Robert Higgs
This article is a summary of the views expressed by Robert Higgs in his article Recession and Recovery: Six Fundamental Errors of the Current Orthodoxy. And how the article compares to the approach taken by Gregory Mankiw in his well known textbooks along with Keynes theories as their arguments can…
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Inflation
The inflation rate is a measure of the increase in asset prices, measuring the percentage change in the average price level from the previous year. Where a positive inflation rate means rising prices, a negative inflation rate means falling prices, and a declining positive inflation rate means rising prices at a…
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Monetary Policy and the Reserve Bank of Australia
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was created by the Reserve Bank Act 1959 as “Australia’s central bank, which is responsible for managing the Commonwealth’s monetary policy, ensuring financial stability, and printing and distributing currency.” (Reserve Bank of Australia, 2011) This article in explaining the premise of the RBA…