Budget Deficits and Economic Performance (Routledge Revivals)

Burdekin, Richard; Langdana, Farrokh

List of figures; List of tables; Foreword by Thomas D. Willett; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1; 1. Budget Deficit financing: a general review 2. The role of fiscal policies in the German hyperinflation: how unpleasant was the monetary arithmetic? 3. War, money and inflation: lessons from three revolutionary episodes; Part 2; 4. The importance of central bank independence 5. Assessing the interaction between central bank behaviour and governments 6. International evidence on the relationship between central banks and governments 7. Is fiscal policy-making constrained by an independent central bank?; Part 3; 8. International transmission of US macro-economic policy to the Western European economies 9. Central bank intervention and bond-financed budget deficits 10. Should central banks target domestic inflation or nominal exchange rates?; Notes; References; Index