The Political economy of American monetary policy /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Thomas Mayer.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1990.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 314 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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A theory of FOMC dissent voting with evidence from the time series / Thomas Havrilesky and Robert Schweitzer -- Explaining FOMC members' votes / John A. Gildea -- Fed behavior and X-efficiency theory : toward a general framework / Harinder Singh and Roger Frantz -- Minimizing regret : cognitive dissonance as an explanation of FOMC behavior / Thomas Mayer -- The discount window / William Poole -- Leaning aginst the wind : the behavior of the money stock in recession and recovery, 1953-8 / Elmus Wicker -- Bureaucratic self-interest as an obstacle to monetary reform / Edward J. Kane.
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Studying the Fed : toward a broader public-choice perspective / Thomas D. Willett with Edward Keen -- The Federal Reserve reaction function : a specification search / Salwa S. Khoury -- Corporate profitability as a determinant of restrictive monetary policy : estimates for the postwar United States / Gerald A. Epstein and Juliet B. Schor -- Federal Reserve behavior since 1980 : a financial-market perspective / William C. Melton and V. Vance Roley -- The Federal Reserve and its institutional environment : a review / Michael C. Munger and Brian E. Roberts -- The political economy of monetary policy / Robert L. Hetzel -- Political monetary cycles / Nathaniel Beck -- Congress and the Fed : why the dog does not bark in the night / Nathaniel Beck -- The Federal Reserve as a political power / James L. Pierce -- Monetary policy and political economy : the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan / Thomas F. Cargill and Michael M. Hutchison -- A positive analysis of the policy-making process at the Federal Reserve / Raymond E. Lombra and Nicholas Karamouzis.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This collection of essays examines the institutional framework in which monetary policy is made. The essays consider two questions: how free is the Federal Reserve Bank in the USA to set monetary policy, and to what extent do organizational problems affect the choice of that monetary policy.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
Federal Reserve Board.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (États-Unis)
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)