House Prices and the Macroeconomy: Implications for Banking and Price Stability

ISBN-13: 9780199204595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 245 str.

Charles Goodhart; Boris Hofmann

Opis

The macroeconomic implications of asset price flucuations have received increasing attention in academic and policy circles recently, in large part due to the recent boom-bust bubbles in the equity and now housing markets. This book aims to investigate the role of asset prices for various aspects of the macroeconomy.

O autorze

Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics and is Programme Director of the Financial Markets Group. Before joining the London School of Economics in 1985, he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. During 1986, Prof. Goodhart helped to found, with Mervyn King, the Financial Markets Group at London School of Economics. In 1997, he was appointed one of the outside independent members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee until May 2000. He has taught at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. Boris Hofmann is an economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt am Main and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) of the University of Bonn. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn and has written and published a number of articles on topics in monetary and financial economics.