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Simon Bilo

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Simon Bilo

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Simon Bilo is a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Economics at George Mason University. Simon holds a MA in Economics of International Trade and European Integration – a joint degree awarded by a consortium of seven European universities that include Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium) and Staffordshire University (UK).  In addition, he holds a master’s degree in Economic Policy from the University of Economics in Prague (Czech Republic). His primary research focuses on theories of exchange rates, pricing of production factors, and the Austrian school of economics. In the past, he was a director and one of the founders of the Prague Conference on Political Economy (pcpe.libinst.cz); Alford Fellow and Printz Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; and CEE telecommunications analyst at the International Data Corporation (IDC). Simon’s paper presentations include the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics International Research Conference and the Eastern Economic Association annual conference.

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Neutral Money: Historical Fact or Analytical Artifact?

Richard Wagner, Simon Bilo | Aug 31, 2012
Long-run neutrality of money is an artifact of a particular theoretical framework. The authors advance an alternative though not contradictory theoretical framework where monetary processes exert lasting real effects. This framework holds without rejecting the classical equilibrium condition that nominal values are independent of economic realities because the two frameworks are non-commensurable.

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