Volume IV: Monetary Policy: Rules and Transmission Mechanisms

Cover Volumen IV: SSeries on Central Banking.

Edited by Norman Loayza & Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel - ISBN 956 7421 099

"This is a first-rate treatise on monetary policy in emerging countries. The contributors are first-rate academics and practitioners. They provide deep insights and rigorous analysis. This book is a must read for anyone interested in undertstanding the contribution of monetary policy to stability, growth and prosperity, Definitely, a home run!"

Sebastian Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles.

"The achievement of low and stable rates of inflation worldwide has come hand in hand with a growing interest by central banks in the promotion and in-house production of high-level, policy-relevant research in monetary economics, as exemplified by the papers in the present volume. The Central Bank of Chile deserves high marks in both fronts"

Jordi Gali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

"This addition to a new series of volumes, representing the highly regarded annual conferences held by the Central bank of Chile, is most welcome. In it, leading academic and central bank analysts consider a wide variety of issues concerning the design of monetary policy rules, the specification of transmission mechanisms (i.e., macroeconomic structures), and the interaction of these. A notable feature is the inclusion of full quantitative studies for six different economies -Australia, Canada, Chile, Israel, South Africa, and the U.K. - plus informative policy-rule estimates for five Latin American economies"

Benett t. McCallum, Carnegie Mellon University

Table of Contents

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Title  Author
Monetary Policy Functions and Transmission Mechanisms: An Overview (325k) Norman Loayza, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel 
The Monetary Transmission Mechanism and the Evaluation of Monetary Policy Rules (177k) John B. Taylor
Policy Rules and External Shocks 127k) Laurence Ball
Optimal Monetary Policy Rules when the Current Account Matters (1.052k) Juan Pablo Medina, Rodrigo O. Valdés
Optimal Monetary Policy Rules under Inflation Range Targeting (805k) Juan Pablo Medina, Rodrigo O. Valdés
Monetary Policy in Latin America in the 90s  (611k) Vittorio Corbo
The Effect of Uncertainty on Monetary Policy: How Good are the Brakes? (429k) Adam Cagliarini, Guy Debelle
Monetary Policy in Chile: A Black Box? (738k) Ángel Cabrera, Luis Felipe Lagos 
Does Inflation Targeting Increase Output Volatility?: An International Comparison of Policymakers' Preferences and Outcomes  (946k) Stephen G. Cecchetti, Michael Ehrmann 
Optimal Monetary Policy in a Small, Open Economy: A General-Equilibrium Analysis (193k) Charles T. Carlstrom, Timothy S. Fuerst 
Policy Biases when the Monetary and Fiscal Authorities Have Different Objectives (330k) Herman Bennett, Norman Loayza
The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in the United Kingdom: Pass-Through and Policy Rules (711k) Alastair Cunningham, Andrew G. Haldane
The Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism and Policy Rules in Canada (1.071) David Longworth, Brian O'Reilly
Monetary Policy Rules and Transmission Mechanisms under Inflation Targeting in Israel (743k) Leonardo Leiderman, Hadas Bar-Or
Estimating Monetary Policy Rules for South Africa (361k) Janine Aron, John Muellbauer