Macroeconomic Policy After the Crash: Issues in Monetary and Fiscal Policy

By Richard Barwell

Part 1) Monetary Policy.- Chapter 1) The Lower Bound: the zero and beyond.- Chapter 2) Quantitative Easing: bond buying to the rescue.- Chapter 3) Deflation: the dog that didn't bark.- Chapter 4) The Productivity Puzzle.- Chapter 5) Loose Talk: guiding interest rate expectations lower.- Chapter 6) Importing Disinflation.- Chapter 7) Low For Much, Much Longer: postponing lift-off from the lower bound.- Part 2) Fiscal Policy.- Chapter 1) Fiscal Arithmetic.- Chapter 2) Objectives.- Chapter 3) The Fiscal Multiplier.- Chapter 4) Monetary Dominance.- Chapter 5) When Bond Markets Attack.- Chapter 6) Repair, Restructure, Repress or Reach for the Printing Press.- Chapter 7) The Institutions of Fiscal Policy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137515910
• ISBN13: 9781137515919
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"