The Measurement of Monetary Policy / Edition 1

by M. Ray Perryman

Overview

The material in this book reflects, in many respects, the culmination of several years of research regarding the measurement of monetary policy. On all the issues addressed in the text, I have thus attempted to provide a perspective of the type that can only be gained from "living with" a topic over an extended time horizon. I have often said that I came to understand the monetary indicators literature only after having written dozens of papers on the subject. This statement may seem a bit trite, but I feel certain that anyone who has waded through this morass (or at least tried to) can fully empathize and recognize the grain of truth therein. It is my sincere hope that the synthesis given in the work will calm the fears and anxieties that often (and understandably) plague beginners in this field. In settling down to the process of "pulling together" this manuscript, I was surprised to find the ease and consistency with which various topics, explored at widely diverse times and in no particular order, meshed into a unified whole. I attempted to write the book in a manner that would simultaneously be generally comprehensible to students (particularly at the graduate level) and to practitioners desiring a relatively thorough overview of the indicators literature and yet be of value to scholars desiring to explore (and hopefully advance) this field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780898381177
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	03/31/1983
Edition description:	1983
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

I Introduction to Monetary Measurement.- 1 The Nature of Monetary Measurement.- 2. The Neutralized Money Sk: A Reconstruction.- 3 Ml* and M2*: Dynamic Monetary Indicators from a Simultaneous Equation Model.- II Optimality of the Monetary Indicator.- 4 On the Biasedness of Observable Monetary Indicators.- 5 Optimality in the Choice of an Unbiased Monetary Indicator.- III The Use of Monetary Indicators: Applications and Perspectives.- 6 Applications of the Optimal Monetary Indicator in Policy Analysis.- 7 A Perspective on Monetary Measurement.- Name Index.