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Title

Varieties of monetary reforms : lessons and experiences on the road to monetary union / edited by Pierre L. Siklos.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

Siklos, Pierre L., 1955-

Description

385 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Monetary systems
• United States
• Monetary unions > Europe > Congresses
• Monetary policy > Europe > Case studies > Congresses
• Banks and banking, Central > Europe > Congresses
• Monetary policy > United States > Congresses
• Foreign exchange rates > Congresses
• Federal Reserve banks > Congresses
• Europe

Note

• "Many of the papers in this volume were presented at two conferences during the course of 1992"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Surveys. Ch. 1. Varieties of Monetary Reforms / Pierre L. Siklos. Ch. 2. Optimal Currency Areas: A Fresh Look at the Traditional Criteria / Paul R. Masson and Mark P. Taylor -- Pt. II. Exchange Rate Management. Ch. 3. Exchange Rate Pegging as a Disinflation Strategy: Evidence from the European Monetary System / Richard C. K. Burdekin, Jilleen R. Westbrook and Thomas D. Willett. Ch. 4. How Much to Commit to an Exchange Rate Rule: Balancing Credibility and Flexibility / Alex Cukierman, Miguel A. Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan -- Pt. III. Central Bank Independence. Ch. 5. Central Bank Dependence and Inflation Performance: An Exploratory Data Analysis / Forrest H. Capie, Terrence C. Mills and Geoffrey E. Wood. Ch. 6. Political Effects on Central Bank Behaviour: Some International Evidence / David R. Johnson and Pierre L. Siklos. Ch. 7. Reputation, Central Bank Independence and the ECB / Michele Fratianni and Haizhou Huang.
• Ch. 8. An Institutional Analysis of the Proposed European Central Bank with Comparisons to the U.S. Federal Reserve System / Nathaniel Beck -- Pt. IV. Country Studies. Ch. 9. Monetary Union and Monetary Policy: A Review of the German Monetary Union / Jurgen von Hagen. Ch. 10. Designing a Central Bank in a Federal System: The Deutsche Bundesbank, 1957-1992 / Susanne Lohmann. Ch. 11. Rules, Discretion, and Central Bank Independence: The German Experience, 1880-1989 / Bernhard Eschweiler and Michael D. Bordo. Ch. 12. The Origins of the Monetary Union in the United States / Arthur J. Rolnick, Bruce D. Smith and Warren E. Weber. Ch. 13. On the Coyne-Rasminsky Directive and Responsibility for Monetary Policy in Canada / Thomas K. Rymes. Ch. 14. Crippled Monetary Policy in Transforming Economies: Why Central Bank Independence Does Not Restore Control / Istvan Abel, John P. Bonin and Pierre L. Siklos.

ISBN

0792394747 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

94013036

OCLC

ocm30624848

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries