货币改革的经济理论

An Economic Theory of Monetary Reform

Journal of Political Economy · 1980
被引 110
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

提出货币供给过程必须满足“过程一致性”才能被公众接受,否则会引发货币改革。通过德国恶性通胀数据,发现过程一致性的主观概率在改革启动当周降至最低。

Abstract

Agents' beliefs in the imminent reform of a particular money supply process can have a powerful effect on their predictions of such variables as the rate of inflation. To find a criterion for monetary reform, we argue that any money supply process which does not provide a finite solution for price in a Cagan-type hyperinflationary money market will be rejected by the public. Such a process does not have the basic property of money which we call "process consistency," and we suggest that agents' subjective probabilities that their money is "process consistent" are identical to the probability that they attach to a currency reform. We compute agents' subjective probabilities that a particular money supply process is process consistent for the explosive part of the German hyperinflation, and we find that the probability of process consistency reached its lowest level in the very week in which the reform started.

货币改革货币供给过程过程一致性恶性通货膨胀德国恶性通胀