Economic liberalization almost everywhere has constituted a positive supply shock which has been profoundly disinflationary at the global level. Financial liberalization in the industrial countries has also given fuller rein to inherent tendencies towards “procyclicality”, a process of...

This paper studies the international coordination of monetary policies in the world economy. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on monetary competition between Europe and America. Similarly, as...

Neben Frühindikatoren und Übertragungsmechanismen werden Lösungsansätze diskutiert. Bei den multilateralen Ansätzen führt die Einführung von Referenzzonen nicht weiter, die Behinderung des internationalen Kapitalverkehrs ist mit erheblichen Wohlfahrtsverlusten verbunden. Der...

The paper traces the dangers in the closed economy perspective of a monetary policy focused on a domestic inflation goal under a clean float. Field evidence of the damage wrought from this perspective is reinforced by that from a laboratory experiment. The laboratory experiment avoids...