A handbook of alternative monetary economics

This major new Handbook consists of over 30 major contributions that explore the full range of exciting and interesting work on money and finance, currently taking place within heterodox economics. There are many themes and facets of alternative monetary and financial economics but two major ...

The European Central Bank

credibility, transparency, and centralization

The adoption of the euro in 1999 by 11 member states of the European Union created a single currency area second in economic size only to the United States. The euro zone's monetary policy is now set by the European Central Bank (ECB) and ...

Central banking in Eastern Europe

This book, written by a multinational team of experts, explores the changing face of central banking in Eastern Europe in the light of modern macroeconomic thinking, providing important and novel insights into the design of monetary policy institutions. With its authoritative content, this book will ...

Reshaping economic and monetary union

membership rules and budget policies in Germany, France and Spain

Following Maastricht national governments found themselves pushed into distinctive roles, as promoters, gatekeepers, reformers and defectors, as voter preferences and central bank powers combined in different ways to create clear incentives for politicians. These roles explain the push from certain countries for specific changes to ...

Monetary Unions and hard pegs

effects on trade, financial development, and stability

Eds. Volbert Alexander, Jacques Mélitz, George M. Von Furstenberg This book analyses formal approaches to overcoming monetary divisions within countries and within integrating regions, focusing on the consequences of monetary union for trade among union members and their financial development and stability ÍNDICE:PART I ...

Monetary policy implementation

theory-past-present

The first of its kind, this book is entirely dedicated to the implementation of monetary policy: how central banks go about achieving their monetary policy targets. Monetary policy implementation has gone through tremendous changes over the last twenty years, which have witnessed the quiet end ...

El Banco Central Europeo y el sistema europeo de bancos centrales

régimen jurídico de la autoridad monetaria de la Comunidad Europea

L'età delle banche centrali

forme e governo della moneta fiduciaria in una prospecttiva istituzionalista

Qual è il ruolo delle banche centrali, e come è andato evolvendosi negli oltre due secoli della loro esistenza? E quale logica evolutiva ha condotto ad attribuire loro una generalità di funzioni: istituto di emissione, prestatore di ultima istanza, responsabile della politica monetaria, gestore del ...

Il mercato monetario e la banca centrale

liquidità bancaria, politica monetaria, sistemi di pagamento

Il mercato monetario rappresenta il punto d'incontro tra la gestione della liquidità bancaria e la politica monetaria: da un lato, consente agli intermediari di ridistribuire la liquidità, contribuendo così al loro equilibrio finanziario; dall'altro, costituisce l'ambito di realizzazione della politica monetaria e ...

Lezioni di economia monetaria

La seconda edizione delle Lezioni di Economia Monetaria appare a due anni di distanza dalla prima e include alcuni importanti aggiornamenti istituzionali sulle strategie di politica monetaria, le procedure operative, la struttura e la governance della Federal Reserve e della Banca Centrale Europea. Nel complesso ...

How monetary policy works

For monetary policymakers worldwide, developing a practical understanding of how monetary policy transmits to the economy is a day-to-day challenge. The data such policymakers have is imperfect, the maps they use are continually redrawn. With such uncertainty, understanding this complicated issue is rarely straightforward. This ...

Gold and the modern world economy

Respected international experts such as Michael Bordo, Larry Sjaastad and Ken Clements are brought together in this comprehensive volume to provide all you need to know about gold and the modern world economy INDICE Gold and the world economy - overview Western Australian mineral commodity outlook ...

La Banca Centrale Europea

gli aspetti istituzionali della banca centrale della Comunità Europea

United States Department of the Treasury

current issues and background

Towards a new paradigm in monetary economics

Towards a New Paradigm for Monetary Economics presents a pioneer treatment of critical topics in monetary economics. Unlike the prevailing monetary theory, this book focuses not on the role of money in facilitating transactions, but on the role of credit in facilitating economic activities more ...

The macroeconomy of the Eurozone

an Irish perspective

This title is intended to provide readers with a framework to help them understand how the Irish economy functions as a member of the Eurozone. Among the topics discussed are: basic macroeconomic principles; open economy macroeconomic models; the role of fiscal, monetary, exchange rate, and ...

The monetary theory of production

In mainstream economic theory money functions as an instrument for the circulation of commodities or for keeping a stock of liquid wealth. In neither case is it considered fundamental to the production of goods or the distribution of income. Augusto Graziani challenges traditional theories of ...

Política monetaria

Vol I: Fundamentos y estrategias

ÍNDICE: Capítulo 1: La oferta monetaria, la demanda de dinero y los tipos de interés Capítulo 2: La política monetaria: contenido, estrategias y transmisión de sus efectos Capítulo 3: Eficacia y limitaciones de la política monetaria Capítulo 4: La política financiera Capítulo 5: La política ...

Política monetaria

II: Enfoques alternativos

INDICE: 1.La teoría de la política monetaria y financiera (I): la teoría cuantitativa del dinero 2.La teoría de la política monetaria y financiera (II): el enfoque de J.M.Keynes 3.La teoría de la política monetaria y financiera (III): distintas corrientes keynesianas ...

Interest and prices

foundations of a theory of monetary policy

With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned money- growth targets as practical guidelines for monetary policy as well ...