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 -- 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...

chapter 1 Introduction Industrial democracies, globalization, challenges, and policy -- chapter 2 Party governments–central banks interaction: The fiscal–monetary policy mix -- chapter 3 Change in the economic environment, political actors, and adjustment The new economic environment, policy...

What changes are needed to make counter-cyclical economic policy more effective in the aftermath of the recent crisis? An important lesson from the severity of the recent recession is that policy in various areas will have to be more prudent during upswings and to build in greater safety margins...

This paper analyses the major changes in both monetary and fiscal policy that have taken place over the past two decades and, within the limits of the existing empirical research, evaluates the overall costs and benefits for the OECD economies. The general findings for monetary policy are that,...

Three novel macroeconomic policy challenges are discussed in this paper: the macroeconomic implications of China’s emergence; the implications of intensifying financial integration; and the interaction of Asia’s foreign exchange regime with monetary policy in the OECD area. First, China may...