Monetary Policy and Its Unintended Consequences
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Monetary Policy and Its Unintended Consequences
About this book
Central banks took extraordinary measures to stabilize markets and enhance growth after the financial crisis of 2008, but without giving much thought to the long-term consequences. It was a response, Raghuram Rajan argues, that set a dangerous precedent: the more centrals bank did, the more they were expected to do, and the more they ended up doing. Monetary Policy and Its Unintended Consequences looks back at what this meant for where we are now.
A former central banker who foresaw the 2008 crisis and wrote a bestselling book about the risks of excessively accommodative monetary policy, Rajan takes a hard look at central bank behavior and its embrace of increasingly aggressive strategies to keep economies afloat. Despite efforts to strengthen markets, the 2020 pandemic showed economies remain as vulnerable as ever to adverse shocks, prompting large-scale interventions that, in the case of Covid, led to persistent inflation and market volatility. By examining these undertheorized outcomes, Rajan hopes central banks will recognize the unintended consequences of using all of the instruments available to them, which will encourage them to return to their core mandates of low inflation and financial stability.
Monetary Policy and Its Unintended Consequences is the most thorough account yet of the choices central banks have made to meet the economic challenges of our century and why they must rethink these choices.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Series Foreword
- Introduction: Monetary Policy and Its Unintended Consequences
- 1. A Step in the Dark: Unconventional Monetary Policy after the Crisis
- 2. Capital Flows, Liquidity, and Leverage: A New Take on Monetary Policy Spillovers
- 3. Rules of the Monetary Game
- 4. Central Banking, Political Pressure, and Its Unintended Consequences
- Less Is More
- References
- Index