Monetary policy in Central Europe
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Bibliographic Information
Monetary policy in Central Europe
(Routledge international studies in money and banking, 38)
Routledge, 2007
- : hbk
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this book Miroslav Beblavy, who has been involved in policy-making at the highest level in his country, offers a detailed study of monetary policy and monetary institutions in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia during the 1990s and the early 2000s and a more general look at monetary policy in less developed, but highly open and financially integrated market economies.
Taking an innovative approach, this text focuses on a range of areas where few articles or books have been published and where very little empirical research has been undertaken, covers the topics of monetary policy frameworks, institutions inflation in transition and developing economies. As well as these border themes it analyzes specific factors that have significant influence on the conduct or outcomes of monetary policy including:
the transmission mechanism of monetary policy in Central Europe
use of principal types of constraints on policy discretion, such as central bank independence, exchange rate commitments and domestic targets for monetary policy.
This book is a valuable resource for postgraduate students and research working or studying in the areas of development economics, public finance and banking.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 Monetary policy objectives, frameworks and institutions 2 Review of macroeconomic developments with emphasis on inflation and monetary policy developments 3 Monetary policy transmission mechanism in Central Europe 4 Institutional constraints on policy discretion - central bank independence 5 The role of the exchange rate in monetary policy 6 Domestic targets and their role in monetary policy Conclusion Explaining monetary policy in Central Europe Lessons for the theory of monetary policy in highly open middle-income economies 8 Epilogue: on the road to Eurozone (2002-2006)
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