A critique of monetary policy : theory and British experience

Author(s)

• Dow, J. C. R. (J. Christopher R.)
• Saville, I. D. (Iain D.)

Bibliographic Information

A critique of monetary policy : theory and British experience

J.C.R. Dow and I.D. Saville

Clarendon Press, 1988

• pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [249]-254

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

pbk ISBN 9780198283195

Description

This book is both a theory of monetary policy, and an examination of how it has worked in the UK. It first analyses the behaviour of the banking system, and then the difficulties of central bank control. The authors argue that money creation is an endogenous process, determined partly by the price level, and not the other way round.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I: The Behaviour of the Financial System
• The Macroeconomic Behaviour of the Banking System
• The Behaviour of Interest Rates: the Theoretical Background
• The Behaviour of Interest Rates Continued
• The Behaviour of Exchange Rates
• Government Transactions, Money, and Interest Rates
• Part II: Monetary Control and the Course of the Aggregates: UK Monetary Policy since 1971
• Central-bank Rate as an Instrument of Monetary Control
• Monetary Base Control
• The Corset, Overfunding, and Banking Supervision
• Monetary Growth since the mid-1960s
• Part III: Conclusions: The Limitations and Role of Monetary Policy
• Monetary Policy Without Monetary Targets
• Bibliography
• Index

Volume

ISBN 9780198285991

Description

This book is both a theory of monetary policy and an examination of how it has worked in the UK. It first analyzes the behaviour of the banking system, and then the difficulties of central bank control. The authors argue that money creation is an endogenous process, determined partly by the price level, and not vice versa. The book challenges some of the accepted wisdoms of monetary theory, providing a basic explanation of why monetary targets are now being abandoned, and makes proposals for the post-target era.

Table of Contents

• Introduction. Part 1 The behaviour of the financial system: The macroeconomic behaviour of the banking system
• the behaviour of interest rates - the theoretical background
• the behaviour of exchange rates
• government transactions, money and interest rates. Part 2 Monetary control and the course of the aggregates: UK monetary policy since 1971
• central-bank rate as an instrument of monetary control
• monetary base control
• the corset, overfunding and banking supervision
• monetary growth since the mid-1960s. Part 3 Conclusions: The limitations and role of monetary policy
• monetary policy without monetary targets. Bibliography. Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA03710345
• ISBN:
  • 019828599X
  • 0198283199
• LCCN: 87031540
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 259 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 337.3
  • LCC : HG939.5
  • DC19 : 332.4/941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Monetary policy -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Interest rates -- Government policy -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Monetary policy
  • LCSH : Interest rates