The new monetary policy implications and relevance

1. Introduction -- 2. New consensus monetary policy : an appraisal -- 3. Central bank behaviour and the stability of macroeconomic equilibrium : a critical examination of the "new consensus" -- 4. Monetary policy divergences in the Euro area : the early record of the European central bank...

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Main Author: McCombie, J. S. L.
Other Authors: Baddeley, Michelle, Arestis, Philip
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K Edward Elgar c2005
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Summary:1. Introduction -- 2. New consensus monetary policy : an appraisal -- 3. Central bank behaviour and the stability of macroeconomic equilibrium : a critical examination of the "new consensus" -- 4. Monetary policy divergences in the Euro area : the early record of the European central bank -- 5. Stock market prices and the conduct of monetary policy under the New Consensus Monetary Policy -- 6. On the US Post-"New Economy" bubble : should asset prices be controlled? -- 7. Monetary policy in the information economy : old problems and new challenges -- 8. The monetary policy outcomes curve : can the size and structure of public debt undermine policy objectives? -- 9. The old lady in new clothes : uncertainty and the UK Monetary Policy framework -- 10. The experience of inflation targeting since 1993 -- 11. Reflections on the Bank of Canada's monetary policy framework -- 12. The determinants of saving in developing countries, and the impact of financial liberalization -- 13. Monetary models and inflation targeting in emerging market economies -- 14. International aspects of current monetary policy
Beginning with an assessment of new thinking in macroeconomics and monetary theory, this book suggests that many countries have adopted the New Consensus Monetary Policy since the early 1990s in an attempt to reduce inflation to low levels. It goes on to illustrate that the explicit control of the money supply, which was fashionable in the 1970s and 1980s in the UK, US, Europe and elsewhere, was abandoned in favour of monetary rules that focus on interest rate manipulation by the central bank. The objective of these rules is to achieve specific, or a range of, inflation targets
Physical Description:vii, 253 p ill
ISBN:9781843769545
9781845427931
1843769549