Monetary Policy in the European Monetary System A Critical Appraisal [Paperback]

Monetary Policy in the European Monetary Systems (EMS) provides the reader with a critical assessment of the EMS operation, focusing on key issues like intervention in money and foreign exchange markets and credibility of EMS exchange rate bands. The book also reopens the discussion on the EMS discipline-credibility hypothesis and the notion of New EMS , testing both with an original methodology. The conflict between internal and external objectives is made clear and the empirical results show the choices made by the individual countries and the resulting implications. The book is written with an empirical orientation based on a unifying data description framework.Monetary Policy in the European Monetary Systems (EMS) provides the reader with a critical assessment of the EMS operation, focusing on key issues like intervention in money and foreign exchange markets and credibility of EMS exchange rate bands. The book also reopens the discussion on the EMS discipline-credibility hypothesis and the notion of New EMS , testing both with an original methodology. The conflict between internal and external objectives is made clear and the empirical results show the choices made by the individual countries and the resulting implications. The book is written with an empirical orientation based on a unifying data description framework.1 Introduction.- 2 The origins, design and working of the European Monetary System.- 2.1. The origins of the EMS.- 2.2. The design of the EMS.- 2.3. The working of the EMS.- 3 Leaning against the wind in the EMS: Did it work? An analysis of the period from 1979 to 1988.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. An exchange market pressure model of the EMS.- 3.3. Assessing foreign exchange intervention: Methodology.- 3.4. Data.- 3.5. Results.- 3.6. Summary and conclusions.- Appendices.- 4 Leaning against the wind through interest rate management: The EMS in the period from 1979 to 1988.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. IntlCƒ