Monetary history, exchange rates and financial markets

essays in honour of Charles Goodhart.Volume 2

"Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets" is a collection of original papers in honour of Charles Goodhart's outstanding contribution to monetary economics and policy. Its contributors - eminent international academics, central bankers and financial market regulators - provide an insight into an extensive set of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Controversies in monetary economics

revised edition

#This book provides an excellent overview of the controversies that have driven debate about monetary theory and policy over the last two centuries. I highly recommend the book for use in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. This new edition revises and updates some of the ...

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 ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in EMU

interactions and coordination

Europe#s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is unlike any other case of monetary unification in history. Here, sovereign countries retain a large degree of fiscal autonomy while monetary policy is centralised and entrusted to an independent central bank - the European Central Bank - with a ...

The governance of public and non-profit organisations

what do boards do?

Ed. Chris Cornforth. Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non- profit organizations are publicly accountable and perform well. Until now, there have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice, but this book fills that gap ...

Economics of exchange rates

In the last few decades exchange rate economics has seen a number of developments, with substantial contributions to both the theory and empirics of exchange rate determination. Important developments in econometrics and the increasingly large availability of high-quality data have also been responsible for stimulating ...

Political pressure, rhetoric and monetary policy

lessons for the European Central Bank

Philipp Maier offers an examination of the extent to which governments and various interest groups have exerted pressure on central banks. The book looks in particular at the Deutsche Bundesbank - which acted as the blueprint for the European Central Bank (ECB) - and utilizes an original ...

The chastening

inside the crisis that rocked the global financia system and humbled the IMF

An author who tries to write an engaging book about the International Monetary Fund faces a daunting task. Who besides devoted readers of The Financial Times would want to read it? With The Chastening, however, Paul Blustein offers a remarkably accessible account of this off-putting ...

Monetary economics

This textbook seeks to break new ground in developing an integrated and comprehensive overview of advanced monetary economics. It achieves this by integrating the presentation of monetary theory with its heritage, empirical formulations and their empirical tests. Rather than confine the coverage to the demand ...

El Banco Central

teoría y práctica

Alan S. Blinder ofrece la doble perspectiva de un destacado macroeconomista académico que llegó a vicepresidente de la Junta de la Reserva Federal, el comité ejecutivo del banco central de Estados Unidos. En este puesto practicó lo que había estado predicando desde hacia tiempo y ...

The theory of money and financial institutions

Volume 2

This is the second volume in a three-volume exposition of Martin Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics"--a term he coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop a process- oriented ...

La economía monetarista

Los ensayos de este volumen ofrecen la esencia de los temas y conceptos que constituyen la teoría de Milton Friedman, máximo exponente de la Escuela de ciencias económicas de Chicago. En las discusiones sobre la alternativa entre decisiones macroeconómicas de cuño keynesiano y medidas de ...

La organización del dinero en el mundo

la economía política de las relaciones monetarias internacionales

El manejo del dinero -instrumento de cambio, unidad de cuenta y conservador de valor- es regulado por el sistema monetario que, a su vez, opera dentro del marco legal y convencional del orden internacional. Adhiriéndose a la noción de la economía política como normadora de ...