Issues in Finance and Monetary Policy

ALVARO ANGERIZ Research Associate, Centre of Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, UK PHILIP ARESTIS University Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economics and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK SANTONU BASU Senior Lecturer, Banking and Finance, Queen Mary University, London, UK EMMANUEL CARRAe University Montesquieu-IFREDE, Bordeaux, France GEORGIO CHORTAREAS Reader in International Finance, University of Essex, UK PAUL DAVIDSON Editor, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics; Visiting Scholar, New York School for Social Work, USA; Emeritus Professor, University of Tennessee, USA JESUS G. GARZA GARCIA Department of Accounting, Finance, and Management, University of Essex, UK CLAUDIA GIRARDONE Lecturer in Finance, University of Essex, UK EDWIN LE HERON Maitre de Conferences in Economics, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Bordeaux, France AMRIT P. JUDGE Principal Lecturer in Financial Economics, Middlesex University Business School, UK KOSTAS MOURATIDIS Lecturer in Finance, University of Wales, School of Business and Economics, Swansea, Wales

The book investigates the contemporary functioning of financial institutions and monetary policies in order to assess their effects in different economic situations. It advances some proposals to improve their contribution towards a more stable and vigorous economy in the context of both developed and developing countries.The book investigates the contemporary functioning of financial institutions and monetary policies in order to assess their effects in different economic situations. It advances some proposals to improve their contribution towards a more stable and vigorous economy in the context of both developed and developing countries.