EMU - A Swedish Perspective provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the EMU project. The main advantages and disadvantages of a single currency are evaluated. A key feature of the analysis is the attempt to integrate economic and political aspects. The book is a revised version of the...

1. Challenges for Central Banking: An Introduction -- 2. Financial Stability, Regulation, Supervision, and Modern Central Banking -- 3. Regulation and the Evolution of the Financial Services Industry -- 4. Regulatory Capital and the Supervision of Financial Institutions: Some Basic Distinctions...

Using an empirical New-Keynesian model with optimal discretionary monetary policy, we estimate key parameters - the central bank's preference parameters; the degree of forward-looking behavior in the determination of inflation and output; and the variances of inflation and output shocks-to match...

This paper suggests an analysis of monetary policy reactions in a typical Finnish business cycle during the regime of credit rationing. We start by presenting a macroeconomic model which incorporates the institutional characteristics of repressed financial markets and which can generate cyclical...