Jennifer C Smith's monetary policy page
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Jennifer Smith's monetary policy lecture notes and handouts
Economic Policy in the UK Module overview
Macroeconomic Policy
1. Inflation Targeting in Practice
2. The Definition of Inflation Targeting
"Strategies (simple rules) for a stability-oriented monetary policy"
3. The Design of an Inflation Target
4. Inflation forecast targeting and Taylor rules
5. The Monetary Transmission Mechanism
Material from 2005-06:
3. Central Bank Independence
- (Week 6) discusses further Empirical Evidence
- Scanned copy of
4. Alternatives to Inflation Targeting
- (Week 6) discusses further Empirical Evidence
6.
7.
- on SGP policy in action
- : "The Stability and Growth Pact: a discussion paper" (March 2004)
8. EMU: Monetary Policy
- (Week 8) discusses the ECB's monetary policy
Seminars
- - Week 6 Tue 1-2 / Wed 11-12
on empirical estimates of the relative performance of the UK inflation targeting regime
: useful paper missing from reading list, on relative performance of inflation targeting versus previous UK monetary policy regimes
of the following Seminar 1 material:
- - Week 8 Tue 1-2 / Wed 11-12
on monetary policy in EMU
of the following Seminar 2 material:
Assessments
Assessment titles and deadlines 2006-07:
: Monday 15 January 2007 (Week 2, Term 2)
Background: I worked at the Bank of England prior to joining the 糖心TV Economics Department (in the Structural Economic Analysis Division). Since arriving at 糖心TV I have taught the module Economic Policy in the UK, and have focused on monetary policy. Although this isn't currently a focus of my research, it is a focus of my interest. The above are the lecture notes for this module.