Positive Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9780521572156 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 316 str.

Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.

Opis

Positive Political Economy investigates how observed differences in institutions affect political and economic outcomes in various social, economic and political systems. It also examines how the institutions themselves change and develop in response to individual and collective beliefs, preferences and strategies. This volume tackles both monetary and real topics in an integrated way, and represents the first coherent empirical investigation of positive models of political economy.

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Introduction Sylvester Eijffinger and Harry Huizinga; Part I. Monetary Institutions and Policy: 2. Reputational versus institutional solutions to the time-consistency problem in monetary policy Susanne Lohmann;3. Monetary Union and monetary federalism: reciprocity political business cycles Jürgen von Hagen;4. The ultimate determinants of central bank independence Sylvester Eijffinger and Eric Schaling; 5. Central bank autonomy and exchange rate regimes - their effects on monetary accommodation and activism Alex Cukierman, Pedro Rodriguez, and Steven Webb; 6. Uncertainty, instrument choice, and the uniqueness of Nash equilibrium: microeconomic and macroeconomic examples Dale Henderson and Ning Zhu;7. New empirical evidence on the costs of European Monetary Union Hélène Erkel-Rousse and Jacques Mélitz; Part II. Exchange Rate Policy and Redistribution: 8. Exchange rate anchors and inflation: a political economy approach Sebastian Edwards;9. Why capital controls? Theory and evidence Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti;10. The political economy of the Exchange Rate Mechanism Patrick Minford;11. Unemployment benefits and redistributive taxation in the presence of labour quality externalities Harry Huizinga; Index.