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In 1958, economist A. W. Phillips published an article describing what he observed to be the inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment; subsequently, the Phillips curve became a central concept in macroeconomic analysis and policymaking. But today's Phillips curve is not the same as the one from fifty years ago; the economy, our understanding of price setting behavior, the determinants of inflation, and the role of monetary policy have evolved significantly since then. In this book, some of today's top economists reexamine the theoretical and empirical validity of the Phillips curve in its more recent specifications.

The contributors consider such questions as what economists have learned about price and wage setting and inflation expectations that would improve the way we use and formulate the Phillips curve, what the Phillips curve approach can teach us about inflation dynamics, and how these lessons can be applied to improving the conduct of monetary policy.

Contributors: Lawrence Ball, Ben S. Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, V. V. Chari, William T. Dickens, Stanley Fischer, Jeff Fuhrer, Jordi Galí, Michael T. Kiley, Robert G. King, Donald L. Kohn, Yolanda K. Kodrzycki, Jane Sneddon Little, Bartosz Maćkowiak, N. Gregory Mankiw, Virgiliu Midrigan, Giovanni P. Olivei, Athanasios Orphanides, Adrian Rodney Pagan, Christopher A. Pissarides, Lucrezia Reichlin, Paul A. Samuelson, Christopher A. Sims, Frank R. Smets, Robert M. Solow, Jürgen Stark, James H. Stock, Lars E. O. Svensson, John B. Taylor, Mark W. Watson ... Read more

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The dispute over Chinese exchange rate policy within the United States has generated a series of legislative proposals to restrict the discretion of the US Treasury Department in determining currency manipulation and to reform the department's accountability to the Congress. This study reviews the Treasury's reports to the Congress on exchange rate policy introduced by the 1988 trade act and Congress's treatment of them. It finds that the accountability process has often not worked well in practice: The coverage of the reports has sometimes been incomplete and not provided a sufficient basis for congressional oversight. Nor has Congress always performed its own role well, holding hearings on less than half of the reports and overlooking important substantive issues. Several recommendations can improve guidance to the Treasury, standards for assessment, and congressional oversight. These include (1) refining the criteria used to determine currency manipulation and writing them into law; (2) explicitly harnessing US decisions on manipulation to the IMF's rules on exchange rates; (3) clarifying the general objectives of US exchange rate policy; (4) reaffirming the mandate to seek international macroeconomic and currency cooperation; and (5) institutionalizing multicommittee oversight of exchange rate policy by Congress. As they develop legislation targeting manipulation, furthermore, legislators should not lose sight of the broader purposes of the 1988 act relating to the effective valuation of the dollar, the current account, and their ramifications for the US economy overall. ... Read more

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This collection has been brought together in honor of the late economist Maxwell Fry. It contains state-of-the-art articles on monetary and exchange rate policy, capital flows, currency markets, and exchange rate policies.

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Volume II provides an in-depth analysis of important specific issues, detailed discussion of the independence of the Bank of Israel, and an econometric study of the central banks policies. This volume also includes a historical account of the liberalization of Israel's foreign-exchange market and various issues related to the banking system, such as concentration, competition, and especially banking supervision. In one of the articles in this volume, based on a series of interviews, the top officials of the Bank of Israel present their view on the Banks policies in the various periods. ... Read more

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These two volumes were written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Bank of Israel. They recount the monetary history of Israel from 1948, when the country was established (and before) to the present day. Volume I retells Israel's monetary history, analyzes the background of the developments mentioned above, and describes the difficulties in regaining monetary control in recent years. This volume also provides an analytical framework to help understand the monetary developments in the inflationary era and in the disinflation process. ... Read more

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Macroeconomic policy is an applications-oriented text designed for individuals who desire a hands-on approach to analyzing the effects of fiscal and monetary policies. MBA and Executive MBA students who appreciate the importance of monetary and fiscal analysis will find this text to be right on target. Financial analysts and individual investors who need to strip away economic myths and jargon and systematically examine and understand the effects of macro policies on variables such as inflation, output, employment and interest rates, will also find the book extremely useful.

A unique feature of this book is the extensive use of specially written "newspaper" articles designed to simulate current macroeconomic news. Each chapter contains exercises that enable the reader to relate specific underlined passages in these articles to the theory presented in preceding chapters. This distinctive approach ensures real-world applicability, and supporting diagrams further enable the reader to relate current economic news to the theoretical material discussed.

Customer Reviews (17)

Great book
This is a great book for anyone looking to understand fiscal and monetary policys and the effect. It gives great insights into the different types of policys "keynesian" and "supply side". Not so much of an opionion but lays out each other's argument and explains the proven effects.

Reasonably Demystifying
This book presents a very nice, reader friendly, high level overview of macroeconomic policy. Something that has an enormous impact on all of our lives whether we realize it or not.

After discussing real GDP, this book begins to introduce progressively more elaborate models of national macroeconomics, finally developing the "full blown" ISLM model in chapter 7. The next three chapters use the ISLM model to illuminate different macroeconomic paradigms: classical, Keynesian, and finally supply-side. The final chapter discusses the role of central banks in monetary policy execution.

Each chapter ends with several "cooked up" news reports of the sort that we are exposed to daily. Key phrases are highlighted and explored in light of their macroeconomic implications after the body of the article.

If you are interested in better understanding comments made by the Fed chairman, the Secretary of the Treasury, or economists in general and attempting to understand their implications for your life, read this book.

I have only two complaints. First, the national savings identity as presented in chapter three as a first step towards this ISLM is -- as stated -- NOT an identity. Second, there is a point of confusion regarding the numerous charts in this book as to whether the axes are labling quantites or the rates of change of those quantities. After starting by using the quantities themselves, there is a footnote that states the axes actually correspond to the rates of change of those quantities later on. This perplexed me mightily. Fortunately, the book is so friendly and intuitive that I was able to overcome these logical misgivings and get quite a lot out of it.

Good Reference book. Not a text book that one can learn from.
I must confess that I have no prior knowledge of economics before taking a masters course in macroeconomics. I found it very difficult to learn the subject from the book. The book served me a good reference book. Its not a ideal text book.

Not bad for an Econ text
As Econ texts go, this one is pretty straight forward and compact.It gets the point across in a small amount of space.The real world articles and analysis is very helpful.My professor was pretty bad for this course, so the book was a lifesaver.

Very useful
A great book for the understading of Macro, and corelate the discussion with the real world. However, the book is not aimed towards the one who is looking for in depth mathematical derivations behind the macro policies. Very interesting to read.
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The New Keynesian framework has emerged as the workhorse for the analysis of monetary policy and its implications for inflation, economic fluctuations, and welfare. It is the backbone of the new generation of medium-scale models under development at major central banks and international policy institutions, and provides the theoretical underpinnings of the inflation stability-oriented strategies adopted by most central banks throughout the industrialized world. This graduate-level textbook provides an introduction to the New Keynesian framework and its applications to monetary policy.

Using a canonical version of the New Keynesian model as a reference framework, Jordi Galí explores issues pertaining to the design of monetary policy, including the determination of the optimal monetary policy and the desirability of simple policy rules. He analyzes several extensions of the baseline model, allowing for cost-push shocks, nominal wage rigidities, and open economy factors. In each case, the implications for monetary policy are addressed, with a special emphasis on the desirability of inflation targeting policies.

• The most up-to-date and accessible introduction to the New Keynesian framework available
• Uses a single benchmark model throughout
• Concise and easy to use
• Includes exercises
• An ideal resource for graduate students, researchers, and market analysts

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The book is interesting and contains good explanations of the new keynesian approach. It is good for a first understanding of the issues.

Not bad.
This is a good book as an introduction to the basics of New Keynsian DSGE models. Overall, it's a pretty good read, however it does have its flaws. The first one is that the book can be far too terse at times. Critical parts of the mathematical analysis are left out of the book. For example, you will not learn how to solve a DSGE model by reading this book. Nor will you learn how to estimate a DSGE model. You will not learn how to simulate a DSGE model by reading this book either. You will not learn how to check the stability of steady states. You will not learn how appropriate some of the quantitative methods used in this book, for example log-linearization, are. One could argue that the book was not written to teach any of these things anyway. The author's aim may have been to simply provide a brief, qualitative feel for how monetary policy models are constructed and what sort of insights they yield.

However, even by that goal, the book has some serious flaws. The author doesn't spend enough time in justifying some of the underlying assumptions that go into DSGE models, nor does he perform any sort of robustness check on these assumptions. For instance, after reading this book, I have no idea why Gali log-linearizes the first order conditions of his model before he proceeds to the solution. I know theorems like Hartman-Grobman allow linearization of the transition function in a neighbourhood of a hyperbolic steady state, but linearisation of the first-order conditions? Why is this legitimate? If so, HOW legitimate is it? Since we never actually get the solution to a real DSGE, we can't know how wrong the linearizations are. This issue is totally ignored by Gali. Likewise, what are the implications of the specific form of the utility function he picks for the agents(or should that be agent)? Why does the household have market power in setting its own wages? How robust is the numerical welfare analysis to a change in the underlying, arbitrarily chosen, welfare function? What are the implications of the outlandish assumption that there are an infinite number of identical countries each with measure zero? Why are we allowed to assume that the production function is linear in technology? Why do we useCalvo pricing over adjustment costs and what are the implications? Why do these models completely abstract away from capital and investment? Why is this legitimate and what are the implications? Surely a model studying interest rates should have meaningful investment/consumption decisions (in Gali's models, the representative consumer consumes all output in every period and there is never any savings, because capital is not required for production).These and many other pertinent issues are wholly ignored by Gali. He never indicates why many of the assumptions are made or what their potential consequences are.

Despite all these simplifications though, a lot of the analysis still ends up being numerical (rather than analytical), and I found this to be thoroughly disappointing. I can appreciate how such a heavily stylized model might tell you something qualitatively valuable, but I wouldn't put any weight on its quantitative predictions. As it turns out, the model's numerical predictions are basically all we get. After reading this book, I know vaguely *what* monetary theorists do, but I have no idea *why* they do it! Not only that, I wouldn't trust a DSGE model to tell me anything quantitatively relevant about the real economy.

On the plus side, Gali doesn't mince his words. The book is relatively short and it communicates its main ideas efficiently. This is in contrast to the excruciating exercise in verbosity put out by Michael Woodford.

Jordi Gali's book
This book is an indispensable introduction to modern New Keynesian macroeconomics. Exposition is very clear and accessible. Many students of macroeconomics will find this book very useful for understanding basics of sticky prices, business cycles and monetary policy in a simple but rigorous framework with optimizing households and firms. In a sense, this book helps to prepare for Woodford's "Interest and prices". Highly recommend for 1st year Ph.D. and advanced undergraduate students.

Nice compendium of the new keynesian paradigm
Nice overview of the new keynesian paradigm. Too bad the books only concentrates on monetary economics and fiscal policy is not analyzed in detail.

Gali's book
The book is a good piece of new-keynesian modeling writen by one of the main contributors for this area. It is very updated and it refers to the literature in a very accurate and interesting way. The material is quite mathematical and it can a bit hard to follow for people who had never had some calculus. ... Read more

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The issue of economic development and monetary stability has produced one of the most passionate debates in economic literature. The authors bring together diverse views on the subject within a coherent framework, some ofthe aspects discussed include a balanced assessment of empirical findings and their theoretical foundations on the role of money and growth; a discussion of financial liberalization reform in developing countries; an analysis of monetary policy as an instrument of economic stabilization; an examination of the monetary supply and demand process in developing countries; and a study of the relationship between money, credit, the balance of payments, inflation and the exchange rate system.

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Since the Bank of England was made independent in 1997, the conduct of monetary policy has been relatively uncontroversial. The debates between Keyneisans, monetarists and supporters of fixed exchange rate mechanisms now appear very distant.

Despite the apparent consensus there are many issues related to the conduct of monetary policy that are not yet settled and which will soon come to the fore. Is the current form of independence for the Bank of England appropriate? Should a central bank target inflation or the prices level? How does a central bank deal with asset price deflation? Should more account be taken of monetary aggregates? Should central banks target asset prices? What is the relationship between the money supply and asset price inflation? How should central banks ensure financial stability?

The IEA was at the forefront of changing the parameters of the debate surrounding monetary policy in the 1970s and 1980s. This text, brings together some of the leading authors in the field, including the current Governor of the Bank of England, to discuss current issues in monetary policy and the relationship between monetary policy and financial markets. It is appropriate for undergraduates and postgraduates in economics and finance as well as for practitioners in financial markets. ... Read more

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Good for pre-2005 financial crisis research
This book is an excellent piece that discusses the relationship between monetary policy and market activity. It will need to be updated for the most recent crisis issues. ... Read more

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This is an examination of the political and constitutional crisis caused by the Supreme Court's response to Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s. The crisis brought to a head the debate over how much the US government should interfere in the nation's economy. The work is based on research into the private papers of the Justices involved. The author offers his own re-interpretation of the struggle which contributed to the future shape of US economic policy. ... Read more

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Today we face one of the greatest economic crises in recorded history. The extent of credit we have amassed is unprecedented. The magnitude and duration of systemic distortions under which this debt has been built, coupled with its global nature, have created an enormous destructive force. Eye of the Storm draws out the major fault-lines in a system that began its leveraged crisis in 1944, the day the system of Bretton Woods was born. Since then, various events, political decisions, and circumstances contrived to create the perfect storm. Eye of the Storm describes the dynamics of our financial system and explains the roles of the major players involved. It examines the institutional failing of finance and how it can be fixed.

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"Eye of the Storm is an excellent book on the current financial crisis. This is the story of how special interests misused a dubious theory to overturn common sense. If you want to understand how an erroneous belief system almost destroyed the global financial system you need to read this book.
The US government can go bankrupt. This book explains how and what needs to be done to stop it."

Russell Napier, author of “Anatomy of The Bear”.


"A very accurate and sobering account of the causes and events leading to the current financial and economic crisis. Stephan Olajide rightly concludes that “considering all major factors that have driven the boom period, the cost is likely to exceed anything we have experienced in recorded history”.
A book every responsible citizen should read!"

Dr. Marc Faber, Editor of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report

“In a breathtaking tour d’horizon on the current financial crisis, Stephan (Olajide-Huesler) ties it all together and translates it into everyday language: From the power of leverage, the deceptively simple theory on the functioning of financial markets, to erroneous concepts of risk, the flow of international capital and the role of (central) banks and asymmetric incentive systems – everything conspired neatly to create the biggest financial crisis in living memory. Going beyond the simplistic explanation and comments prevalent these days, “Eye of the Storm” is a must-read not only for policy makers but also for anybody keen to understand how we got where we are now and to be able to grasp the implication of the seismic shift in the domestic and international political and financial landscape.”

Christoph Bianchet, Asset Manager, ARECON


"An exceptional book on the background of the financial crisis and the possibly dramatic future scenarios. Stephan Olajide- Huesler describes with authority and clarity the causes and fatal mechanisms of the past 30 years and shows possible solutions. To be recommended for everyone who wants to know what actually happened."

Andre Schenker, Economist.

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