Principal Mechanisms in MM

This chapter reviews important paradigms that heavily influence the architecture of MM. We commence with some well known contributions to the pure theory of macroeconomics; in particular, we focus on the work of Mundell and Fleming and on Dornbusch’s model of overshooting exchange rates. Some brief attention is paid also to the open-economy macro models that were developed during the 1980s; a characteristic of the latter is the incorporation of a binding intertemporal budget constraint on the actions of governments.