ABSTRACT

For monetary policymakers worldwide, developing a practical understanding of how monetary policy transmits to the economy is a day-to-day challenge. The data such policymakers have is imperfect, the maps they use are continually redrawn. With such uncertainty, understanding this complicated issue is rarely straightforward.
This book, a collaboration between some of the finest minds working on monetary theory in the world, helps to provide a foundation for understanding monetary policy in all its complex glory. Using models, case studies and new empirical evidence, the contributors to this book help readers on many levels develop their technical expertise.
Students of macroeconomics, money and banking and international finance will find this to be a good addition to their reading lists. At the same time, policymakers and professionals within banking will learn valuable lessons from a thorough read of this book's pages.

chapter 1|2 pages

Introduction

part 1|79 pages

An overview of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy

chapter 2|50 pages

The transmission of monetary policy through interest rates

Policy rate effects on other interest rates, asset prices, consumption and investment

part 2|162 pages

Building structural models of the monetary policy transmission

chapter 4|32 pages

Model-building in theory and practice

The output gap

chapter 5|18 pages

Model-building in theory and practice

The Phillips curve

chapter 6|29 pages

Transmission mechanisms and inflation targeting

The case of Colombia's disinflation

chapter 7|26 pages

Monetary policy and goals for external competitiveness

A dynamic general equilibrium model for Hungary

chapter 9|23 pages

Monetary transmission mechanism in Turkey

A view from a high-inflation environment

part 3|35 pages

Transparency and market expectations

part 4|104 pages

Monetary policymakers' perspectives

chapter 11|2 pages

Central Bank Governors' Symposium, 2001, Bank of England discussant's comments

Governor of the Bank of Barbados

chapter 12|3 pages

Central Bank Governor's Symposium, 2001, Bank of England discussant's comments

Governor of the Bank of Canada

chapter 13|3 pages

Central Bank Governors' Symposium, 2001, Bank of England discussant's comments

Governor of the Bank of India

chapter 16|28 pages

What do we know about the channels of monetary transmission in transition economies?

Hungary's experience under the exchange rate targeting regime

chapter 17|17 pages

Goals and instruments of monetary policy

Past, present and future

chapter 18|15 pages

Monetary policy and the supply side