ISBN10: 0691010498, ISBN13: 9780691010496, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover 2003. Hardcover. Offers theoretical foundations for a rule-based approach to monetary policy for a world of communications and efficient financial markets. This book examines the foundations of monetary economics, showing how interest-rate policy can be used to achieve an inflation target in the absence of either commodity control of a monetary aggregate. Num Pages: 808 pages, 42 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: KCBM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 167 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1282. . . . . .
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ISBN10: 0691010498, ISBN13: 9780691010496, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Hardcover Hardcover. With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned money-growth targets as practical guidelines for monetary policy as well. How then can pure "fiat" currencies be managed so as to create confidence in the stability of national units of account? Interest and Prices seeks to provide theoretical foundations for a rule-based approach to monetary policy suitable for a world of instant communications and ever more efficient financial markets. In such a world, effective monetary policy requires that central banks construct a conscious and articulate account of what they are doing. Michael Woodford reexamines the foundations of monetary economics, and shows how interest-rate policy can be used to achieve an inflation target in the absence of either commodity backing or control of a monetary aggregate.The book further shows how the tools of modern macroeconomic theory can be used to design an optimal inflation-targeting regime--one that balances stabilization goals with the pursuit of price stability in a way that is grounded in an explicit welfare analysis, and that takes account of the "New Classical" critique of traditional policy evaluation exercises.It thus argues that rule-based ...