This session covers Reading 4: Chapter VII of Lombard Street by Walter Bagehot. Bagehot Study Questions This chapter explains the workings of the Bank of England's reserve management system in the second half of the 19th century. It is here that Bagehot describes the central banking approach that would later become known as the Bagehot …

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This session covers Lecture 9: The World That Bagehot Knew and Lecture 10: Dealers and Liquid Security Markets. Lecture 9 Notes Lecture 10 Notes Lecture 9 describes the nineteenth-century London money market operating through banks buying and selling self-liquidating commercial bills of exchange at a discount to face value. Deficit agents sell bills of exchange …

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This session covers Reading 5: Three chapters from A Market Theory of Money by John Hicks (1989). Hicks Study Questions In these three chapters, Hicks starts with the idea that the primary function of money is to serve as a "standard of value" for the market. The function of money, as a standard, is to …

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This session covers Lecture 11: Banks and the Market for Liquidity and Lecture 12: Lender/Dealer of Last Resort. Lecture 11 Notes Lecture 12 Notes Lecture 11 generalizes the Treynor model from security dealers to the term funding market and the overnight money market. It also examines the puzzle of why it's profitable for banks to …

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