Jagdish Handa

Monetary Economics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers an overview of monetary economics and monetary policy. This book covers the microeconomic, macroeconomic and monetary policy components of the field. It offers facts on money demand and supply, and features the relationships between monetary policy, inflation, output and unemployment in the economy.

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This successful text, now in its second edition, offers the most comprehensive overview of monetary economics and monetary policy currently available. It covers the microeconomic, macroeconomic and monetary policy components of the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 844
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 180mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1610g
• ISBN-13: 9780415772099
• ISBN-10: 0415772095
• Artikelnr.: 25564406

Autorenporträt

Jagdish Handa is Professor of Economics at McGill University in Canada and has taught monetary economics and macroeconomics for over forty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Introduction and Heritage
1. Introduction
2. The heritage of monetary economics
Part 2. Money in the Economy
3. Money in the economy: general equilibrium analysis
Part 3. The demand for money
4. The transactions demand for money
5. Portfolio selection and the speculative demand for money
6. Precautionary and buffer stock demand for money
7. Monetary aggregation
8. The demand function for money
9. The demand function for money: estimation problems
techniques and findings
Part 4. Monetary Policy and Central Banking
10. The operating targets of monetary policy: money supply and interest rates
11. The central bank: goals
targets and instruments
12. The central bank: independence
time consistency and credibility
Part 5. Monetary Policy and the Macroeconomy
13. The determination of aggregate demand
14. The classical paradigm in Macroeconomics
15. The Keynesian paradigm
16. Money
bonds and credit in macro modeling
17. Macro models and perspectives on the neutrality of money
18. Walras' law and the interaction among markets
Part 6. The Rates of Interest in the Economy
19. The macroeconomic theory of the rate of interest
20. The structure of interest rates
Part 7. Overlapping generations models of money
21. The benchmark overlapping generations model of fiat money
22. The OLG model: seigniorage
bonds and the neutrality of money
23. The OLG model of money: making it more realistic
Part 8. Money and Financial Institutions in Growth Theory
24. Monetary Growth Theory