Central Bank Balance Sheet and Real Business Cycles

Central Bank Balance Sheet and Real Business Cycles argues that a deeper comprehension of changes to the central bank balance sheet can lead to more effective policymaking. Any transaction engaged in by the central bank—issuing currency, conducting foreign exchange operations, investing its own funds, intervening to provide emergency liquidity assistance and carrying out monetary policy operations—influences its balance sheet. Despite this, many central banks throughout the world have largely ignored balance sheet movements, and have instead focused on implementing interest rates.

In this book, Mustapha Abiodun Akinkunmi highlights the challenges and controversies faced by central banks in the past and present when implementing policies, and analyzes the links between these policies, the central bank balance sheet, and the consequences to economies as a whole. He argues that the composition and evolution of the central bank balance sheet provides a valuable basis for understanding the needs of an economy, and is an important tool in developing strategies that would most effectively achieve policy goals. This book is an important resource for anyone interested in monetary policy or whose work is affected by the actions of the policies of central banks.

Mustapha Abiodun Akinkunmi, PhD, is a Financial Economist and Technology Strategist. He has over twenty-five years of experience in estimation, planning and forecasting using statistical and econometrics methods, with particular expertise in risk, expected utility, discounting, binomial-tree valuation methods, financial econometrics models, monte carlo simulations, macroeconomic, and exchange rate modeling. He has done extensive software development on quantitative analysis of capital markets, revenue and payment gateway, predictive analytics, data science and credit risk management.

Dr. Akinkunmi has implemented change management programs and institutional development initiatives in both public and private sector organizations and has served in high profile positions as a Consultant, Financial Advisor, Project Manager and Business Strategist to AT&T (Bell Labs), Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Phibro Energy, First Boston (Credit Suisse First Boston), World Bank, Central Bank of Nigeria and Information Connectivity Solutions Limited. He is an internationally recognized author and leader in demand analysis, specializing in working with very large databases. Dr. Akinkunmi is the founder of Technology Solutions Incorporated (TSI) in New York, which focused on data science and software application development for clients including major financial services institutions. He has conducted teaching and applied research in areas that include analyses of expenditure patterns, inflation and exchange rate modeling for Manhattan College, Fordham University and American University, Yola, Nigeria.