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What Is the Monetary Standard?

By Robert L. Hetzel
Working Papers
December 2015, No. 15-16

The monetary standard emerges out of the interaction of monetary policy with the structure of the economy. Characterization of the monetary standard thus requires specification of a model of the economy with a central bank reaction function. Such a specification raises all the fundamental issues of identification in macroeconomics.

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