Bankers, bureaucrats, and central bank politics the myth of neutrality
Most studies of the political economy of money focus on the laws protecting central banks from government interference; this book turns to the overlooked people who actually make monetary policy decisions. Using formal theory and statistical evidence from dozens of central banks across the developed...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Agents, institutions, and the political economy of performance
- Career theories of monetary policy
- Central banker careers and inflation in industrial democracies
- Careers and the monetary policy process: three mechanism tests
- Careers and inflation in developing countries
- How central bankers use their independence
- Partisan governments, labor unions and monetary policy
- The politics of central banker appointment
- The politics of central banker tenure
- Conclusion: the dilemma of discretion