Confidence, credibility, and macroeconomic policy : past, present, future /

The authors explore the interaction between confidence and the credibility of the government's financial policies. It will be an invaluable guide for all those interested in macroeconomic policy.

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Main Author: Burdekin, Richard C. K. (Richard Charles Keighley), 1958-
Other Authors: Langdana, Farrokh K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter Part I Credibility in practice and in experimental testing
  • chapter 2 Bond-financed deficits, taxation and expectations: An experimental test of the Ricardian equivalence theorem
  • An experimental test of the Ricardian equivalence theorem*
  • chapter 3 Monetary credibility and national output: An experimental verification of the Lucas 'islands' explanation of business cycles
  • An experimental verification of the Lucas 'islands' explanation of business cycles*
  • part Part II Confidence and credibility factors in historical perspective
  • chapter 4 Public confidence and public finance during the American Civil War: Lessons from North and South
  • Lessons from North and South*
  • chapter 5 Deficit finance, expectations and real money balances
  • The operation of the inflation tax in Germany after the First World War
  • chapter 6 Does exchange rate pegging foster monetary credibility? The European Monetary System and the 1980s disinflation
  • The European Monetary System and the 1980s disinflation*
  • part Part III Consumer confidence and macroeconomic stabilisation in the 1990s
  • chapter 7 Consumer confidence in today's macroeconomy
  • Definition, measurement and potential importance
  • chapter 8 Consumer confidence and the optimal timing of effective monetary stabilisation / (with Giles Mellon)*
  • chapter 9 Consumer confidence and domestic fiscal stabilisation / (with Giles Mellon)*.