This vital new Handbook is an authoritative volume presenting key issues in finance that have been widely discussed in the financial markets but have been neglected in textbooks and the usual compilations of conventional academic wisdom.

Purpose – During the Greenspan-Bernanke era, the responses of Federal Reserve officials to financial crises resulted in an extraordinary involvement of the US central bank in the non-banking financial sector. The purpose of this paper is to examine the informal and evolving conceptual...

The Greenspan---Bernanke doctrine on how the Federal Reserve responds to stock market bubbles reflects an ideological allegiance to the rational markets theories of stock prices while reluctantly accepting the analytical insights of the speculative markets theories of the Post Keynesians and...