Current Issues in Monetary Economics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745001289 ISBN 13: 9780745001289

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1990

Synopsis

This book brings together leading academics and researchers to make a timely contribution to our understanding of the key issues in the fast-developing field of monetary economics. It offers a thoroughly comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of major areas such as money supply and demand, interest rate determination, international transmission of inflation, public debt, stabilization of the economy, the rational expectations hypothesis and the relationship between money and economic development. The book will be essential reading for all undergraduate and graduate students of monetary economics and macroeconomic theory. Contents: Preface; Contributors; Introduction: Taradas Bandyopadhyay and Subrata Ghatak; Money demand and supply, M.J. Artis and M.K. Lewis; Money market operations of the Bank of England and the determination of interest rates, David T. Llewellyn; Real interest rates and the role of expectations, Kajal Lahiri and Mark Zaporowski; Public sector deficits and the money supply, P.M. Jackson; The international transmission of inflation, George Zis; A critique of monetary theories of the balance of payments; nihil ex nihilo, M.H.L. Burstein; A framework for the analysis of two-tier exchange markets with incomplete segmentation, Jagdeep S. Bhandari and Bernard Decaluwe; Rational expectations and monetary policy, Patrick Minford; Monetary policy and credibility, Paul Levine; Disinflation and wage-price controls, David A. Wilton; Monetary growth models: The role of money demand functions, Taradas Bandyopadhyay and Subrata Ghatak; Index.

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...an up-to-date and comprehensive account of some major issues in monetary economics... Journal of Economic Literature ...an up-to-date and comprehensive account of some major issues in monetary economics... Journal of Economic Literature

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745001289
• ISBN 13: 9780745001289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Bandyapadhyay Taradas, Ghalak Subrata