Money Markets and Politics
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84376-445-8 (ISBN)
The dramatic evolution of financial markets in the 1980s and 1990s, accompanied by increasing institutional integration between nations (most notably in the EU), have fostered a widespread belief that governments - particularly those of small economies - have essentially lost the power to pursue sovereign, independent economic policies. At the same time, it is widely assumed that the loss of monetary-policy control is a major opportunity cost for a country adopting a rigid exchange-rate regime or, in the European context, for countries joining the EMU.This book sheds light on these arguments by examining the relationship between the international integration of domestic money markets and the degree of monetary-policy independence in eleven small, open economies in Europe. The authors address these important issues in the context of a broad-based historical analysis of market formation and growth, exchange-rate policies and deregulation. They find that political motives, in conjunction with competitive forces, path dependence and institutional factors, are a major determinant of market development. Moreover, they reveal that credible commitment to a stability goal is a far more reliable predictor of monetary-policy autonomy than the adoption of a specific exchange-rate regime.
This accessible investigation of the relationship between domestic money-market development, international financial integration and the monetary-policy options available to small, open economies will be welcomed by students and researchers of macroeconomics, financial economics and political economy. The extensive empirical research and original conclusions will also be of interest and benefit to corporate decisionmakers, bankers, policymakers and regulators.
Jens Forssbæck, Researcher, Lund Institute of Economic Research, Lund University, Sweden and Lars Oxelheim, Professor, School of Business and Law, University of Agder (UiA), Kristiansand, Norway, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm and Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), Lund, Sweden
Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Background Indicators of Economic and Financial Development and Integration 3. Money Market Formation and Transformation 4. Money Market Development and Monetary Policy Operations 5. External Arrangements: Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Controls 6. Measuring Capital Mobility: The Degree of Direct Money Market Integration 7. Monetary Policy Autonomy under Different Institutional Regimes 8. Money Market Development and Monetary Policy Options: Concluding Remarks References Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.12.2003 |
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Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84376-445-8 / 1843764458 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84376-445-8 / 9781843764458 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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