International Economics II: International Monetary Theory and Open-Economy Macroeconomics / Edition 2

by Giancarlo Gandolfo

Overview

Besides traditional topics of international monetary theory and open-economy macroeconomics, this textbook also contains further concepts like the theory of monetary integration and the European monetary union, foreign exchange crises and the Tobin tax, theory of games and international policy coordination.

The book has a unique "two-tier" structure, the text speaks directly to the undergraduate, the appendices are addressed to the graduate student and the researcher. The book can also be used as a reference book. The ample and balanced treatment of the various approaches and the clarity of exposition ensure that the reader gains a thorough grasp of theories, facts and policies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540586876
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	06/22/1995
Edition description:	2nd rev. ed. 1995
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

10 The foreign exchange market.- 11 Balance of payments and national accounts.- 12 The role of the exchange rate in the adjustment process in a partial equilibrium framework.- 13 The role of income changes in the adjustment process.- 14 The absorption approach and interactions between exchange rate and income in the adjustment process.- 15 Money and other assets in the adjustment process under fixed exchange rates.- 16 Money and other assets in the adjustment process under flexible exchange rates.- 17 International capital movements and other problems.- 18 The exchange rate.- 19 The theory of monetary integration and the European Monetary System.- 20 Problems of the international monetary system.- 21 The problem of integration between the pure theory of international trade and international monetary economics.- Name Index.