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Monetary economics
Monetary economics is a branch of economics that historically prefigured and remains integrally linked to macroeconomics.[1] Monetary economics provides a framework for analyzing money in its functions as a medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account. It considers how money, for example fiat currency, can gain acceptance purely because of its convenience as a public good.[2] It examines the effects of monetary systems, including regulation of money and associated financial institutions[3] and international aspects.[4] Modern analysis has attempted to provide a micro-based formulation of the demand for money[5] and to distinguish valid nominal and real monetary relationships for micro or macro uses, including their influence on the aggregate demand for output.[6] Its methods include deriving and testing the implications of money as a substitute for other assets[7] and as based on explicit frictions.[8] Research areas have included:
empirical determinants and measurement of the money supply, whether narrowly-, broadly-, or indexaggregated, in relation to economic activity[9]
debt-deflation and balance-sheet theories, which hypothesize that over-extension of credit associated with a subsequent asset-price fall generate business fluctuations through thewealth effect on net worth.[10] and the relationship between the demand for output and thedemand for money[11]
monetary implications of the asset-price/macroeconomic relation[12] the quantity theory of money,[13] monetarism,[14] and the importance and stability of the relation between the money supply and interest rates, the price level, and nominal and real output of an economy.[15]
monetary impacts on interest rates and the term structure of interest rates[16] lessons of monetary/financial history[17] transmission mechanisms of monetary policy as to the macroeconomy[18] the monetary/fiscal policy relationship to macroeconomic stability[19] neutrality of money vs. money illusion as to a change in the money supply, price level, or inflation on output[20]
tests, testability, and implications of rational-expectations theory as to changes in output or inflation from monetary policy[21]
monetary implications of imperfect and asymmetric information[22] and fraudulent finance[23] game theory as a modeling paradigm for monetary and financial institutions [24] the political economy of financial regulation and monetary policy[25] possible advantages of following a monetary-policy rule to avoid inefficiencies of time inconsistency from discretionary policy[26]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_economics