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"An up-to-date analysis of monetary policy, with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. The book considers questions about how it actually works in practice, and what it should do. It also considers many of the contributions made by economists, both theoretical and empirical, which shed light on monetary policy. One of the aims of the book is to impart this knowledge in an intelligible way to those with a reasonable grasp of basic economics"--

Examines the European Monetary System experience and whether it can be applied to the International Monetary System. Addresses the relationship between the ERM currencies and the US dollar. There have been suggestions for a 'common dollar policy'. However, advance agreement on a common policy is difficult to imagine, in view of the differing interests of individual ERM countries, as well as the United States. (Abstract amended)

We do two things in this paper. First, we look at some simple models of monetary decision making in a monetary union & ask how much more variable a country's output & inflation is likely to be if it joins the union. We answer this analytically & then go on to "calibrate" the simple model. The model has few structural equations, but it is useful in allowing us to examine how the variability of output & inflation are likely to change as key parameters change. Our conclusions on this front are likely to be sensitive to model specification. However, we also identify a second best issue concerning the optimal make-up of the monetary union that is likely to be more robust: namely that only when all members of the union have the same structural parameter values (& shocks are perfectly correlated) will it be optimal for a new member to have these same structural parameter values. 1 Table, 1 Figure, 1 Appendix, 36 References. Adapted from the source document.