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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820390303321

Titolo

Monetary policy / / edited by N. Gregory Mankiw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1994

ISBN

1-281-22382-4

9786611223823

0-226-50310-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Studies in business cycles ; ; v. 29

Altri autori (Persone)

MankiwN. Gregory

Disciplina

332.4/973

332.4973

Soggetti

Economic policy

Monetary policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Use of a Monetary Aggregate to Target Nominal GDP -- 2. Nominal Income Targeting -- 3. Nonstandard Indicators for Monetary Policy: Can Their Usefulness Be Judged from Forecasting Regressions? -- 4. On Sticky Prices: Academic Theories Meet the Real World -- 5. What Determines the Sacrifice Ratio? -- 6. Measuring Core Inflation -- 7. Monetary Policy and Bank Lending -- 8. Historical Perspectives on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism -- 9. Federal Reserve Policy: Cause and Effect -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Monetary Policy, leading monetary economists discuss applied aspects of monetary policy and offer practical new research on the timing, magnitude, and channels of central banking actions. Some of the papers in this volume evaluate a variety of policy rules based on monetary aggregates, nominal income, commodity prices, and other economic variables. Others analyze price behavior and inflation, particularly the short-run behavior of prices. Still others examine the monetary transmission mechanism-the channel through which the central bank's actions affect spending on goods and services-with a special focus on the reduction in bank lending that must accompany a reduction in reserves. This new research will be of special interest to



central bankers and academic economists.