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The Past and Future of Central Bank Cooperation
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 30.00This book explores the past and future of central bank cooperation in today's global economy. more...
Central Banking, Asset Prices and Financial Fragility
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95The current literature on central banking contains two distinct branches. On the one side, research focuses on the impact of monetary policy on economic growth, unemployment, and output-price inflation, while ignoring financial aspects. On the other side, some scholars leave aside macroeconomics in order to study the narrow, but crucial, subjects... more...
Central Banks as Economic Institutions
Edward Elgar Publishing 2008; US$ 40.00The number of central banks in the world is approaching 180, a tenfold increase since the beginning of the twentieth century. What underlying process has brought central banks to hold such a key role in economic life? This book examines from a transatlantic perspective how the central bank has become the bank of banks. more...
The Evolution of Monetary Policy and Banking in the US
Springer 2008; US$ 99.99A 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 policies. The book consists... more...
Currencies, Capital Flows and Crises
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95Breaking from conventional wisdom, this book provides an explanation of exchange rates based on the premise that it is financial capital flows and not international trade that represents the driving force behind currency movements. John T. Harvey combines analyses rooted in the scholarly traditions of John Maynard Keynes and Thorstein Veblen with... more...
Japanese Monetary Policy
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00How has the Bank of Japan (BOJ) helped shape Japan's economic growth during the past two decades? This book comprehensively explores the relations between financial market liberalization and BOJ policies and examines the ways in which these policies promoted economic growth in the 1980s. The authors argue that the structure of Japan's financial markets,... more...
Monetary Policy Rules
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 32.50This timely volume presents the latest thinking on the monetary policy rules and seeks to determine just what types of rules and policy guidelines function best. A unique cooperative research effort that allowed contributors to evaluate different policy rules using their own specific approaches, this collection presents their striking findings on... more...
Money, History, and International Finance
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00This volume provides a critical evaluation of Anna J. Schwartz's work and probes various facets of the immense contribution of her scholarship—How well has it stood the test of time? What critiques have been leveled against it? How has monetary research developed over the years, and how has her influence been manifested? Bordo has collected... more...
The Inflation-Targeting Debate
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 37.50Over the past fifteen years, a significant number of industrialized and middle-income countries have adopted inflation targeting as a framework for monetary policymaking. As the name suggests, in such inflation-targeting regimes, the central bank is responsible for achieving a publicly announced target for the inflation rate. While the objective of... more...
The Euro at Ten
Oxford University Press, UK 2008; US$ 109.99The Euro Area is ten years old. This major new reappraisal by some of the world's leading scholars examines the effects of the new European single currency on the member states of the European Union in its first decade. - ;With Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) the European Union is embarked on a major historic political project of formidable technical... more...









