Where does the money go? Monetary policy, central banks and... ideology
Jens van ‘t Klooster (KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam)
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Where does the money go? Monetary policy, central banks and... ideology Jens van t Klooster (KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam) Talk What is monetary policy? What happened after 2008? What is the alternative? Big question:
Jens van ‘t Klooster (KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam)
Private credit money Circulated by banks guided by profit motive Public money Circulated by central banks as a part of economic policy -> public control
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Purchasing securities from
Objectives
Central banks follow rather than shape the market For example, they
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accordance with strict ECB capital key
(Matikainen, Campiglio and Zenghelis 2017)
(Matikainen, Campiglio and Zenghelis 2017)