Aspects of Central Bank Policy Making

Aspects of Central Bank Policy Making edited by Zvi Eckstein.

This volume is a collection of papers which were presented and discussed at a conference on "Aspects of Central Bank Policy Making" which took place in January 1990 at the Bank of Israel and Tel Aviv University. The conference marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of David Horowitz w...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Eckstein, Zvi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1991.
Edition:1st ed. 1991.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Economics.
Management science.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Rules and Constraints on Monetary Policy
  • 1. The Federal Reserve at Seventy Five
  • 2. Towards a European Central Bank: Fiscal Compatibility and Monetary Constitution
  • 3. Can Restrictions on Banking Replace Fiscal Adjustment? Seigniorage, Reserve Requirements, and Mandatory Investment
  • 4. Credibility and Consistent Central Bank Policy: An Insider View
  • 5. Discretion, Precommitments and the Prospects for a European Central Bank — Fixed Parities versus a Commonly Managed Currency
  • 6. Exchange Rate Systems: New Perspectives
  • II. Insurance and Regulation of Commercial Banks
  • 7. Competitive Banking with Fractional Reserves and Regulations
  • 8. A Case for Reforming Federal Deposit Insurance
  • III. Review of Monetary Policy in Germany and Israel
  • 9. Monetary Control and Exchange Market Management: German Policy Experience from the 1985 Plaza Agreement to the 1989 Summit of the Arch
  • 10. The Balance-of-Payments Offset to Monetary Policy: An Examination of the Israeli Case
  • 11. Israel’s Post-Stabilization Recession: Monetary Factors
  • 12. Tax Smoothing and Tests of Ricardian Equivalence: Israel 1961-1988.

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