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Monetary Policy and Financial Deregulation in the United States

Year:    1988

Author:    Rasche, Robert H.

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, Vol. 21 (1988), Iss. 3 : pp. 451–468

Abstract

Monetary Policy and Financial Deregulation in the United States

This study examines whether the continuing financial innovation and deregulation that occurred in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s was a potential source of significant difficulty for the conduct of monetary policy. The evidence suggests that the problems for policymakers arising from these sources were relatively few, and that the major structural change associated with the introduction of NOW accounts in 1981 could have been detected relatively quickly. This structural change was an increase in the interest elasticity of velocity which is contrary to the prevailing opinion about the likely impact of the introduction of interest bearing transactions accounts on the velocity of transactions money.