Christopher Adolph

Bankers, Bureaucrats, and Central Bank Politics

The Myth of Neutrality

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Produktbeschreibung

Adolph illustrates the policy differences between central banks run by former bankers relative to those run by bureaucrats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9781107032613
• ISBN-10: 110703261X
• Artikelnr.: 36958100

Autorenporträt

Christopher Adolph is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also a core member of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. He is a former Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research and won the American Political Science Association's Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in political economy. His research on comparative political economy and quantitative methods has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, Social Science and Medicine and other academic journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Agents, institutions, and the political economy of performance
2. Career theories of monetary policy
3. Careers and inflation in industrial democracies
4. Careers and the monetary policy process
5. Careers and inflation in developing countries
6. The uses of autonomy: what independence really means
7. Partisan governments, labor unions, and monetary policy
8. The politics of central banker appointment
9. The politics of central banker tenure
10. Conclusion: the dilemma of discretion.