Econometric techniques and models are still being extensively used in the business of forecasting and policy advice. This book presents recent advances in the theory and applications of quantitative economic policy, with particular emphasis on fiscal and monetary policies in a European and global context. The volume honors Andrew Hughes Hallett, a pioneer and major scientist in quantitative economic policy analysis, whose contributors are among his friends and former students.

InhaltsangabeOptimal policy design in interdependent economies.- Quantitative Economic Policy - Theory and Applications: Introduction and Overview.- Theory of Quantitative Economic Policy.- Towards a New Theory of Economic Policy: Continuity and Innovation.- If the Representative Agent is Used, Should He Be Believed? Aggregation, Welfare and the Role of Microfoundations in Quantitative Economic Policy.- Time Consistency, Subgame Perfectness, Solution Concepts and Information Patterns in Dynamic Models of Stabilization Policies.- Models of Endogenous Coalition Formation Between Fiscal and Monetary Authorities in the Presence of a Monetary Union.- Fiscal Policy.- Fiscal Federalism, Risk Sharing and the Persistence of Shocks.- Debating Fiscal Federalism in EMU: Plus ça change.- A Common Election Day for Euro-Zone Member States?.- Automatic Stabilisers and Budget Rules.- Monetary Policy.- Domestic and International Determinants of the Bank of England's Liquidity Ratios during the Classical Gold Standard, 1876-1913: An Econometric Analysis.- On the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy.- From the EMS to EMU: Has There Been Any Change in the Behaviour of Exchange Rate Correlation?.- Optimum Monetary Policy during Monetary Union Enlargement.- When the Dollar Falls.- Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with High Unemployment.- Uncertainties Surrounding Natural Rate Estimates in the G7.