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Progress and confusion : the state of macroeconomic policy / edited by Olivier Blanchard, Raghuram Rajan, Kenneth Rogoff, and Lawrence H. Summers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blanchard, Olivier, Editor.
- Series:
- The MIT Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monetary policy.
- Fiscal policy.
- Economic policy.
- Macroeconomics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge The MIT Press 2016
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leading economists consider the shape and future of economic policy: Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus or contend with the post-crisis "new normal"? Have we made progress with addressing the major issues or does confusion remain in today's economic environment? Chapters address topics that range from the measurement of systemic risk to foreign exchange intervention.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1 A Road Map to "Progress and Confusion"; Part I The "New Normal"; 2 Debt Supercycle, Not Secular Stagnation; 3 Rethinking Secular Stagnation after Seventeen Months; Part II Systemic Risk and Financial Regulation; 4 A Note from the Session on Systemic Risk and Financial Regulation; 5 A Comparative Analysis of Financial Sector Health in the United States, Europe, and Asia; 6 Rethinking Financial Regulation: How Confusion Has Prevented Progress; 7 Systemic Risk and Financial Regulation: Where Do We Stand?; 8 Shadow Banking as a Source of Systemic Risk
- Part III: Macroprudential Policies 9 Macroprudential Policy Regimes: Definition and Institutional Implications; 10 Macroprudential Tools, Their Limits, and Their Connection with Monetary Policy; 11 A Simple Cost-Benefit Analysis of Using Monetary Policy for Financial Stability Purposes; Part IV Monetary Policy in the Future; 12 Introduction to the Monetary Policy Section; 13 Monetary Policy in the Future; 14 A Monetary Policy for the Future; 15 The Credit Surface and Monetary Policy; 16 Remarks on the Future of Monetary Policy; Part V Fiscal Policy in the Future
- 17 Fiscal Policy for the Twenty-First Century: Testing the Limits of the Tax State?18 The Future of Fiscal Policy; 19 What Future for Rules-Based Fiscal Policy?; 20 On the Proper Size of the Public Sector and the Level of Public Debt in the Twenty-First Century; Part VI Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Management, and Capital Controls; 21 Floating Exchange Rates, Self-Oriented Policies, and Limits to Economic Integration; 22 Some Lessons of the Global Financial Crisis; 23 Capital Inflows, Exchange Rate Management, and Capital Controls; Part VII The International Monetary and Financial System
- 24 The International Monetary and Financial System: Eliminating the Blind Spot 25 Prospects and Challenges for Financial and Macroeconomic Policy Coordination; 26 Global Safe Asset Shortage: The Role of Central Banks; 27 Going Bust for Growth; Part VIII Conclusion; 28 Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?; List of Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-33343-0
- 0-262-33344-9
- 1-4755-5053-7
- 0-262-33345-7
- OCLC:
- 949930782
- Publisher Number:
- 40026253307
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