Money Matters
Essays in Honour of Alan Walters
Published on 25. February 2004
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-1-84376-443-4 (ISBN)
Description
As a tribute to the exceptional contributions of Alan Walters to monetary theory and policy, this book draws together a distinguished cast of international contributors to write about money. In a series of essays they review controversies in monetary economics and debate current policy issues.Combining theoretical analysis with policy evaluation, this book touches on a whole spectrum of issues ranging from monetary union and exchange rate regimes, to credit rationing and policy games. The book focuses on the problems of modelling the effects of monetary and fiscal policy, and setting optimal policies for the future. It concludes with two stimulating panel discussions, one questioning whether the UK should join the Euro and the other discussing the appropriate targets of monetary policy.
Bringing together for the first time papers celebrating Alan Walters' achievements in this field, this book will be warmly welcomed by those with special interest in monetary economics, particularly policymakers, students and academics.
Bringing together for the first time papers celebrating Alan Walters' achievements in this field, this book will be warmly welcomed by those with special interest in monetary economics, particularly policymakers, students and academics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84376-443-4 (9781843764434)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Edited by Patrick Minford, Professor of Applied Economics, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
Content
Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Taking on the Economics Establishment: An Appreciation of Alan Walters the Political Economist 2. Consistent Expectations, Rational Expectations, Multiple-Solution Indeterminacies, and Least-Squares Learnability 3. The Efficacy of Monetary Policy in a Multi Sector, Two Country Model 4. Model Misspecification, Robustness and Monetary Policy 5. The Case for Monetary Union in Mercosur 6. De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes in Transition Economies: Identification and Determination 7. News-Magazine Monetarism 8. Alan Walters and the Demand for Money: An Empirical Retrospective 9. The Interaction of Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Solvency and Stabilisation Issues 10. Monetary Policy under Banking Oligopoly 11. Money Targeting 12. Credit Value-at-Risk Constraints, Credit Rationing and Monetary Policy 13. Policy Games and the Optimal Design of Central Banks 14. Policy Evaluation with a Forward-Looking Model 15. Policy Panel Contributions (i) Should the UK Join the Euro? The Monetary Issues (ii) What Should Monetary Policy be Targeting? Appendix: European Monetary Forum Conference in Honour of Alan Walters, May 2002 Index