Handbook of Monetary Economics 3A

What tools are available for setting and analyzing monetary policy?

World-renowned contributors examine recent evidence on subjects as varied as price-setting, inflation persistence, the private sector's formation of inflation expectations, and the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Stopping short of advocating conclusions about the ideal conduct of policy, the authors focus instead on analytical methods and the changing interactions among the ingredients and properties that inform monetary models. The influences between economic performance and monetary policy regimes can be both grand and muted, and this volume clarifies the present state of this continually evolving relationship.

Explores the models and practices used in formulating and transmitting monetary policies Raises new questions about the volume, price, and availability of credit in the 2007-2010 downturnQuestions fiscal-monetary connnections and encourages new thinking about the business cycle itselfObserves changes in the formulation of monetary policies over the last 25 years

The Mechanism Design Approach to Monetary Theory--Neil Wallace

New Monetarist Economics: Models--Stephen Williamson and Randall Wright

Money and Inflation: Some Critical Issues--Bennett T. McCallum and Edward Nelson

Rational Inattention and Monetary Economics--Christopher A. Sims

Imperfect Information and Aggregate Supply--N. Gregory Mankiw and Ricardo Reis

Microeconomic Evidence on Price-Setting--Peter J. Klenow and Benjamin A. Malin

DSGE Models for Monetary Policy Analysis--Lawrence J. Christiano, Mathias Trabandt and Karl Walentin

How Has the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Evolved over Time?--Jean Boivin, Michael T. Kiley and Frederick S. Mishkin

Inflation Persistence--Jeffrey C. Fuhrer

Monetary Policy and Unemployment--Jordi Gali

Financial Intermediation and Credit Policy in Business Cycle Analysis--Mark Gertler and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

Financial Intermediaries and Monetary Economics--Tobias Adrian and Hyung Song Shin