'This is an excellent first installment in a series of books that examines the implications of the financial crisis for the field of macroeconomics. The various chapters, written by a blend of top academics and central bank economists who are in the frontline, cover both the theory and the practice of how monetary policy ought to respond to financial crises.' Frank Smets, Director General of the Directorate General Research, European Central Bank
1. New instruments of monetary policy Jagjit S. Chadha and Sean Holly; 2. Liquidity and monetary policy Douglas Gale; 3. Interest rate policies and the stability of banking systems Hans Gersbach and Jan Wenzelberger; 4. Handling liquidity shocks: QE and Tobin's q Marcus Miller and John Driffill; 5. Asset purchase policies and portfolio effects: a DSGE analysis Richard Harrison; 6. Financial intermediaries in an estimated DSGE model for the UK Stefania Villa and Jing Yang; 7. Unconventional monetary policy, central bank balance sheets and long term forward rates Sharon Kozicki, Eric Santor and Lena Suchanek; 8. Non-standard monetary policy measures and monetary developments Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, Huw Pill and Lucrezia Reichlin; 9. Quantitative easing: one year on Spencer Dale; 10. What saved the banks: unconventional monetary or fiscal policy? Mike Wickens; 11. Non-conventional monetary policies: three views from the DSGE literature Evren Caglar, Jack Meaning, Alex Waters, James Warren and Jagjit Chadha.