Monetary policy and unemployment the US, Euro-area and Japan

This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti.One of the main aims of the conference was to discuss what poten...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Semmler, Willi (-)
Autores Corporativos: New School University. Economics Department (-), New School University. Center for Economic Policy Analysis
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge 2005.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Routledge international studies in money and banking ; 31.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Monetary Policy and Unemployment: The US, Euro-area, and Japan; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I Overview: Unemployment and monetary policy in the three currency areas; 2 Monetary policy and unemployment; 3 Some notes on monetary policy and unemployment; 4 The long stagnation of the Japanese economy during the 1990s and macroeconomic policies; Part II Labor market institutions and unemployment; 5 The role of shocks and institutions in the rise of European unemployment: The aggregate evidence
  • 6 Labor market institutions and unemployment in Europe: A comment on Blanchard and Wolfers7 Labor market dynamics in the Euro-area: A model-based sensitivity analysis; Part III Structuralist causes of unemployment and monetary policy; 8 The structuralist perspective on real exchange rate, share price level, and employment path: What room is left for money?; 9 The long stagnation and monetary policy in Japan: A theoretical explanation; 10 Monetary policy, the labor market, and pegged exchange rates: A study of the German economy; Part IV Monetary policy rules, fiscal policy, and unemployment
  • 11 The constitutional position of the Central Bank12 Activist stabilization policy and inflation: The Taylor rule in the 1970s; 13 The Fed's monetary policy rule: Past, present, and future; 14 What is the impact of tax and welfare reforms on fiscal stabilizers?: A simple model and an application to EMU; Index