Monetary policy simulation game

Do you want to test your skill as a central banker? The Swiss National Bank -- the central bank of Switzerland -- has created a monetary policy simulation game called MoPoS, and you can try your skills without doing too much damage to our economy.

The game program can be downloaded from here

And an instruction guidebook is also available in a pdf file.

MoPoS (short for: Monetary Policy Simulation Game) is a computer game which lets the player act out the role of a fictitious central bank by implementing monetary policy in a simple virtual economy. The purpose of the game is to give the player a feel for the options and limitations of monetary policy.

There is, however, no connection whatsoever between MoPoS and the monetary policy conducted by the Swiss National Bank.

On the one hand, no special background knowledge is necessary to play the game, which has been designed for interested lay persons as well as pupils and students. Since, on the other hand, it allows the model specifications (monetary policy regulation, parameter values, shock characteristics) to be altered at will, informed users will also find numerous forms of application. MoPoS was developed by former National Bank economist Yvan Lengwiler.