Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and new approaches have yet to stand the test of time. Policymakers have been forced to improvise and researchers to...

Contents -- Preface -- I Monetary Policy -- Questions: How Should the Crisis Affect Our Views of Monetary Policy? -- 1 Monetary Policy in the Wake of the Crisis -- 2 Conventional Wisdom Challenged? Monetary Policy after the Crisis -- 3 Lessons for Monetary Policy -- 4 Macroeconomics, Monetary...

Contents -- Introduction: Rethinking Macro Policy II-Getting Granular -- I Monetary Policy -- 1 Many Targets, Many Instruments: Where Do We Stand? -- 2 Monetary Policy, the Only Game in Town? -- 3 Monetary Policy during the Crisis: From the Depths to the Heights -- 4 Monetary Policy Targets...