Confidence, Credibility and Macroeconomic Policy

ISBN-13: 9780415102780 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 234 str.

Richard C. K. Burdekin; R. Burdekin; Farrokh K. Langdana

Opis

The results of macroeconomic policy are often unpredictable. One of the major reasons for this is the importance of confidence and expectations in economic affairs. For a government's economic policies to succeed they must gain and maintain economic credibility, which many governments are finding increasingly difficult. Confidence, Credibility and Macroeconomic Policy explores the interaction between fiscal and monetary stabilization, confidence and expectations, and the credibility of the government's financial policies. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I begins with an overview of the inter-relationship between fiscal policy, credibility and inflation and presents two pioneering, experimental studies that explore the effects of macroeconomic policies on expectations. Part II focuses on empirical research and presents historical as well as contemporary evidence on the importance of public confidence and expectations to the success of fiscal and monetary policy. Part III covers the definition and functions of consumer confidence as it is measured today.

Spis treści

Part I Credibility in practice and in experimental Testing 1 Fiscal policy, credibility and inflation: The critical role of confidence factors 2 Bond-financed deficits, taxation and expectations: An experimental test of the Ricardian equivalence theorem 3 Monetary credibility and national output: An experimental verification of the Lucas ‘islands’ explanation of business cycles Part II Confidence and credibility factors in historical Perspective 4 Public confidence and public finance during the American Civil War: Lessons from North and South 5 Deficit finance, expectations and real money balances: The operation of the inflation tax in Germany after the First World War 6 Does exchange rate pegging foster monetary credibility? Part III Consumer confidence and macroeconomic stabilisation in the 1990s 7 Consumer confidence in today’s macroeconomy: Definition, measurement and potential importance 8 Consumer confidence and the optimal timing of effective monetary stabilisation 9 Consumer confidence and domestic fiscal stabilisation (with Giles Mellon)

O autorze

Richard Burdekin is Associate Professor of Economics at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School. Farrokh Langdana is Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at Rutgers School of Management.