The Monetary policy of the Federal Reserve

a history

Details the evolution of the monetary standard from the start of the Federal Reserve through the end of the Greenspan era. The book places that evolution in the context of the intellectual and political environment of the time. By understanding the fitful process of replacing ...

The politics of public money

spenders, guardians, priority setters, and financial watchdogs inside the Caadian Government

Public money is perhaps the quintessential currency of influence for politicians and public servants inside government. It shapes how they undertake the nation's business and it impacts on the standards of living in the country. "The Politics of Public Money" examines the extent to ...

The evolution of monetary policy and banking in the US

A concise analysis of the evolution of monetary policy and banking institutions over the past sixty years that stresses the dynamic interactions between the Federal Reserve and banking institutions that resulted from financial market innovations. Institutions were influenced by increasing competition in markets and monetary ...

Money, financial intermediation and governance

Dino Falaschetti and Michael Orlando unify the treatment of the many deeply related topics in money and banking in this wide-ranging book. By continually building on the assumption that economic actors are maximizers, they explain how monetary and financial services, as well as related governance ...

Exchange rates and international finance

The international landscape of the world economy changes with each edition of Exchange Rates and International Finance. None more so, however, than with publication of the fifth edition at a time when the world is moving away from dollar and Euro domination and newly- important ...

Modern perspectives on the gold standard

Eds. Tamim Bayoumi, Barry Eichengree, Mark P. Taylor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Currency crises in Europe and Mexico during the 1990s provided stark reminders of the importance and the fragility of international financial markets. These experiences led some commentators to conclude that open international capital markets are incompatible with ...

El dinero como empresa privada: un sistema monetario apolítico. El nuevo enfoque de la libertad

E. C. Riegel (1879-1953), abogado de los consumidores y estudioso independiente del dinero, confió siempre en que las mejoras de base en el sistema del comercio harían más por la libertad y el bienestar individual que cualquier reforma política. En el centro de estas mejoras ...

Central banks as economic institutions

Ed. Jean-Philippe Touffut. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------The number of central banks in the world is approaching 180, a tenfold increase since the beginning of the twentieth century. What lies behind the spread of this economic institution? What underlying process has brought central banks to hold such a key ...

Introducción al análisis económico

el caso colombiano

Este libro ofrece una síntesis de los obstáculos conceptuales y prácticos que debe superar el enfoque tradicional del análisis económico del derecho, que le permita contribuir al debate sobre las reformas legales y judiciales en América Latina. Con el objeto de abordar problemáticas complejas, como ...

Remontar las crisis

el desenvolvimiento de las organizaciones en su contexto

La palabra crisis en la Argentina y en el mundo de hoy, en especial en los comienzos de este nuevo milenio, se ha tornado de uso corriente. Se refiere a vivencias, experiencias y realidades dramáticamente cambiantes que han tenido que enfrentar en esta última década ...

Desaceleración, inflación y presupuesto

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº201, año 2007)

Macroeconomía práctica

El principal objetivo de este libro radica en contemplar en su vertiente práctica, la asignatura de Macroeconomía en los primeros cursos de las licenciaturas de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales.

Macroeconomía

Desde el punto de vista revolucionario e innovador, J. Bradford Delong trata la macroeconomía de forma más asequible para introducir al lector en la Teoría del Crecimiento Económico, mediante una descripción más breve de conceptos tópicos y un lenguaje más coloquial.

Reconstructing macroeconomics

a perspective from statistical physics and combinatorial stochastic processes

The authors treat macroeconomic models as composed of large numbers of micro-units or agents of several types, and explicitly discuss stochastic dynamic and combinatorial aspects of interactions among them. In mainstream macroeconomics sound microfoundations for macroeconomics has meant incorporating sophisticated intertemporal optimization by representative agents ...

Macroeconomía

Tabla de Contenidos Prólogo. PARTE V. Macroeconomía: cuestiones y datos 17. Macroeconomía: visión panorámica de la economía. 18. Medición de la actividad económica: el PIB y el desempleo. 19. Medición del nivel de precios y de la inflación. PARTE VI. La economía a largo plazo ...

Macroeconomía

problemas y ejercicios resueltos

Libro que complementa en su parte práctica al libro de Blanchard. Para asignaturas de Macroeconomía Intermedia. El libro se estructura en cinco partes. Cada capítulo arranca con una exposición teórica como recordatorio y que es básica para la resolución de los problemas que hay a ...

Organizational change

This successful text provides a discussion of change in relation to the complexities of organizational life with an emphasis on applying the theory into practice. The book is structured in three parts. The first part considers the causes and nature of change. Part two opens ...

Models for dynamic macroeconomics

Models for Dynamic Macroeconomics provides the advanced student with key methodological tools for the dynamic analysis of a core selection of macroeconomic phenomena, including consumption and investment choices, employment and unemployment outcomes, and economic growth. The technical treatment of these tools will enable the student ...

Robustness

The standard theory of decision making under uncertainty advises the decision maker to form a statistical model linking outcomes to decisions and then to choose the optimal distribution of outcomes. This assumes that the decision maker trusts the model completely. But what should a decision ...

Macroeconomic patterns and stories

a guide for MBAs

This book offers the wisdom and insight regarding the US economy from a well-known and distinguished econometrician who found himself first teaching macro economics to MBAs and then directing the highly-regarded and widely-quoted UCLA/Anderson Forecast which provides quarterly forecasts for the US economy. Edward ...