Handbook of Monetary Economics

Michael Woodford is the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University. His first academic appointment was at Columbia in 1984, after which he held positions at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, before returning to Columbia in 2004. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.), and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). In 2007 he was awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. Woodford’s primary research interests are in macroeconomic theory and monetary policy. He has written extensively about the microeconomic foundations of the monetary transmission mechanism, the role of interest rates in inflation determination, rules for the conduct of monetary policy, central-bank communication policy, interactions between monetary and fiscal policy, and the consequences of electronic payments for monetary control. His most important work is the treatise Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy, recipient of the 2003 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics. He is the co-editor of the Handbook in Economics series.

"This, the companion volume provides the counterpoint to the Monetary Analysis writings in Volume 3A. Here the theme of macroeconomic engineering confronting politico-economic and socio-economic reality comes to the fore. The politics of monetary policy, inflation targeting, the clash between monetary and fiscal policy are all addressed. The question of robustness in macroeconomic policy making is considered. This volume provides a valuable source for those concerned with increasing our understanding of the links between theory and practice." --Martin Shubik, Yale University"Monetary Economics has made great strides since the HANDBOOK OF MONETARY ECONOMICS, Volumes 1 and 2 was published. In Volumes 3A and 3B you will find surveys, written by leaders in their fields, of new work on foundations, the transmission mechanism, adaptive learning and expectation formation, optimal monetary policy, constraints on monetary policy, robustness in macroeconomics, monetary policy in practice, and much more, as well as applications to the latest crises. Every economist will want these volumes placed within easy reach on their bookshelf." --William A. Brock, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• The Optimal Rate of Inflation--Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin UribeOptimal Monetary Stabilization Policy--Michael WoodfordSimple and Robust Rules for Monetary Policy--John B. Taylor and John C. WilliamsOptimal Monetary Policy in Open Economies--Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Sylvain LeducThe Interaction Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy--Matthew Canzoneri, Robert Cumby and Behzad DibaThe Politics of Monetary Policy--Alberto Alesina and Andrea StellaInflation Expectation, Adaptive Learning and Optimal Monetary Policy--Vitor Gaspar, Frank Smets and David VestinWanting Robustness in Macroeconomics--Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas J. SargentMonetary Policy Regimes and Economic Performance: The Historical Record, 1979-2008--Luca Benati and Charles GoodhartInflation Targeting--Lars E.O. SvenssonThe Performance of Alternative Monetary Regimes--Laurence BallThe Implementation of Monetary Policy: How Do Central Banks Set Interest Rates?--Benjamin M. Friedman and Kenneth N. KuttnerMonetary Policy in Emerging Markets--Jeffrey Frankel