Handbook of Monetary Economics. Handbooks in Economics Volume 3B

Table of Contents

- The Optimal Rate of Inflation--Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe - Optimal Monetary Stabilization Policy--Michael Woodford - Simple and Robust Rules for Monetary Policy--John B. Taylor and John C. Williams - Optimal Monetary Policy in Open Economies--Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc - The Interaction Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy--Matthew Canzoneri, Robert Cumby and Behzad Diba - The Politics of Monetary Policy--Alberto Alesina and Andrea Stella - Inflation Expectation, Adaptive Learning and Optimal Monetary Policy--Vitor Gaspar, Frank Smets and David Vestin - Wanting Robustness in Macroeconomics--Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas J. Sargent - Monetary Policy Regimes and Economic Performance: The Historical Record, 1979-2008--Luca Benati and Charles Goodhart - Inflation Targeting--Lars E.O. Svensson - The Performance of Alternative Monetary Regimes--Laurence Ball - The Implementation of Monetary Policy: How Do Central Banks Set Interest Rates?--Benjamin M. Friedman and Kenneth N. Kuttner - Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets--Jeffrey Frankel

Authors

Benjamin M. Friedman Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Michael Woodford Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Michael Woodford is the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University. His first academic appointment was at Columbia in 1984, after which he held positions at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, before returning to Columbia in 2004. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.), and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). In 2007 he was awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. Woodford's primary research interests are in macroeconomic theory and monetary policy. He has written extensively about the microeconomic foundations of the monetary transmission mechanism, the role of interest rates in inflation determination, rules for the conduct of monetary policy, central-bank communication policy, interactions between monetary and fiscal policy, and the consequences of electronic payments for monetary control. His most important work is the treatise Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy, recipient of the 2003 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics. He is the co-editor of the Handbook in Economics series.