Excess Liquidity and Monetary Overhangs

By Gerard Caprio, Patrick Honohan

Excess Liquidity and Monetary Overhangs
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It may be inappropriate to tighten money in response to excess liquidity in developing economies and to money overhang in the constrained reforming socialist economies. Instead, the policy is to address the root causes: deficient information and thin money markets in banking systems of the developing world and rationed goods markets in the reforming economies.

Book Details

  • Country: US
  • Published: 1991
  • Publisher: Financial Policy and Systems Division, Country Economics Department, World Bank
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 21
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