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Monetary-Policy : The Experience of U.S. as Compared to Other Western Countries

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Monetary-Policy : The Experience of U.S. as Compared to Other Western Countries

S. Yadav1,  Shaleen Nath Tripathi2

1 Professor of Economics, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur - 273 009, Uttar Pradesh

2 Economic-Analyst, Sant -Hussain Nagar, Gorakhpur - 273 001, Uttar Pradesh

Volume 6
Issue 2
Pages 29–39
Year 2017
Received: April 26, 2016 Accepted: April 6, 2017 Published: April 1, 2017
Abstract

Economic-growth is contingent on a variety of factors, but the price-level and the level of unemployment are important because the Central-banks gauge these two variables to decide the course of monetary-policy which is responsible for credit-growth and trade-cycles. The relationship between economic-growth and unemployment is crucial because now, every economy tries to minimize unemployment or maximize employment in the process of economic-growth and development. Nonetheless, economists have now accepted prices as the major driving force of economic-growth. They have now acknowledged prices as a sign of economic-activity. In the present paper, we analyzed the effect of prices on the economic-growth and development of the U.S. economy. Almost all the prices in the economy move in the same direction at a time, except bond-prices, even the price of capital and price of labor. During booms, prices rise and in busts, they fall. Prices in the U.S. economy were high during up-cycle and crashed during recession, but interest rates were unexceptionally low, which pushed the economy in the “liquidity-trap,†which is responsible for low spending and low economic-growth. It is suggested that the U.S. economy may go for an internal-devaluation, which means lower-prices and higher demand for both domestic and external economies to achieve full-employment.

Keywords Price-Level Deflation Inflation Unemployment Economic-Growth Money-Supply Internal-Devaluation Interest Rate Liquidity-Trap Demand Supply Real Wages Wage-Rigidity Redenomination Exports
How to Cite

S. Yadav, Shaleen Nath Tripathi (2017). Monetary-Policy : The Experience of U.S. as Compared to Other Western Countries. Arthshastra Indian Journal of Economics & Research, 6(2), 29–39. https://doi.org/10.17010/aijer/2017/v6i2/114126

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