Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies: Party Governments, Central Banks and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix

by Takayuki Sakamoto

This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in eighteen industrial democracies in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Oceania. Sakamoto argues that central banks' influence on economic policy is far more extensive than has been conventionally believed. He demonstrates that central banks systematically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415572274
• ISBN13: 9780415572279
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"