Jens Forssbæck, Researcher, Lund Institute of Economic Research, Lund University, Sweden and Lars Oxelheim, Professor, School of Business and Law, University of Agder (UiA), Kristiansand, Norway, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm and Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), Lund, Sweden

‘Money Markets and Politics offers a bounty of comparative, cross-national statistics that document important money market developments in these eleven countries. The authors have gone to great lengths to present a consistent set of data over a broad range of areas, during a time of remarkable turmoil and change.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Background Indicators of Economic and Financial Development and Integration 3. Money Market Formation and Transformation 4. Money Market Development and Monetary Policy Operations 5. External Arrangements: Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Controls 6. Measuring Capital Mobility: The Degree of Direct Money Market Integration 7. Monetary Policy Autonomy under Different Institutional Regimes 8. Money Market Development and Monetary Policy Options: Concluding Remarks References Index

Jens Forssbæck, Researcher, Lund Institute of Economic Research, Lund University, Sweden and Lars Oxelheim, Professor, School of Business and Law, University of Agder (UiA), Kristiansand, Norway, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm and Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), Lund, Sweden

‘Money Markets and Politics offers a bounty of comparative, cross-national statistics that document important money market developments in these eleven countries. The authors have gone to great lengths to present a consistent set of data over a broad range of areas, during a time of remarkable turmoil and change.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Background Indicators of Economic and Financial Development and Integration 3. Money Market Formation and Transformation 4. Money Market Development and Monetary Policy Operations 5. External Arrangements: Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Controls 6. Measuring Capital Mobility: The Degree of Direct Money Market Integration 7. Monetary Policy Autonomy under Different Institutional Regimes 8. Money Market Development and Monetary Policy Options: Concluding Remarks References Index

Jens Forssbæck, Researcher, Lund Institute of Economic Research, Lund University, Sweden and Lars Oxelheim, Professor, School of Business and Law, University of Agder (UiA), Kristiansand, Norway, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm and Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), Lund, Sweden

‘Money Markets and Politics offers a bounty of comparative, cross-national statistics that document important money market developments in these eleven countries. The authors have gone to great lengths to present a consistent set of data over a broad range of areas, during a time of remarkable turmoil and change.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Background Indicators of Economic and Financial Development and Integration 3. Money Market Formation and Transformation 4. Money Market Development and Monetary Policy Operations 5. External Arrangements: Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Controls 6. Measuring Capital Mobility: The Degree of Direct Money Market Integration 7. Monetary Policy Autonomy under Different Institutional Regimes 8. Money Market Development and Monetary Policy Options: Concluding Remarks References Index