The Capitalization of Income Streams and the Effects of Open Market Policy under Fixed Exchange Rates

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The Capitalization of Income Streams and the Effects of Open-Market Policy under Fixed Exchange Rates ABS TRACT This paper investigates the long-and short-run neutrality of openmarket monetary policy in a world of fixed exchange rates and imperfect substitutability between bonds denominated in different currencies.Using an illustrative portfolio-balance model, it shows that when the public discounts the future tax liabilities associated with the national debt and the central bank supports the exchange rate by trading non- interest-bearing foreign assets, open-market policy has a short-run effect, but no long-run effect, on the domestic price level and interest rate.When the foreign-exchange intervention assets earn interest that is rebated to and capitalized by the public, open-market policy loses even its short-run efficacy--the capital-account offset to monetary policy is complete.

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