Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Issues in Indonesia

Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Issues in Indonesia
Author: Akhand Akhtar Hossain
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136307257

Following the acquisition of its sovereignty from the Netherlands in 1949, Indonesia experienced serious economic and political problems during the 1950s and 1960s, before entering a three-decade-long period of rapid economic growth. Hard-hit by the financial crisis of the late 1990s, Indonesia undertook a wide range of economic and financial reforms. These reforms served to prepare it well for the 2007-08 global financial crisis, through which Indonesia passed relatively unscathed. Drawing on empirical research, this book presents a comprehensive empirical study on the key macroeconomic relations and monetary policy issues in Indonesia. The book analyses monetary, fiscal and exchange-rate policies, looking at their interactions and impacts on the economy. It demonstrates how important macroeconomic management for monetary and financial stability is to sustained national economic growth and development. Data from the 1970s is compared and contrasted with 1950s data to analyse macroeconomic policies and issues in an historical context. Statistical and econometric techniques are juxtaposed with general empirical results to supplement informative discussion of macroeconomic and monetary developments. This book is a useful contribution to studies on macroeconomics and international development, as well as Southeast Asian studies.

Aggregate Money Demand Functions

Aggregate Money Demand Functions
Author: Dennis L. Hoffman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9400918143

The econometric consequences of nonstationary data have wide ranging im plications for empirical research in economics. Specifically, these issues have implications for the study of empirical relations such as a money demand func tion that links macroeconomic aggregates: real money balances, real income and a nominal interest rate. Traditional monetary theory predicts that these nonsta tionary series form a cointegrating relation and accordingly, that the dynamics of a vector process comprised of these variables generates distinct patterns. Re cent econometric developments designed to cope with nonstationarities have changed the course of empirical research in the area, but many fundamental challenges, for example the issue of identification, remain. This book represents the efforts undertaken by the authors in recent years in an effort to determine the consequences that nonstationarity has for the study of aggregate money demand relations. We have brought together an empirical methodology that we find useful in conducting empirical research. Some of the work was undertaken during the authors' sabbatical periods and we wish to acknowledge the generous support of Arizona State University and Michigan State University respectively. Professor Hoffman wishes to acknowledge the support of the Fulbright-Hays Foundation that supported sabbattical research in Europe and separate support of the Council of 100 Summer Research Program at Arizona State University.

Money and Banking

Money and Banking
Author: A. Vasudevan
Publisher: Academic Foundation
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788171883189

This Commendable Book Edited By Dr. A. Vasudevan, A Leading Monetary Economist, Focuses On Money, Monetary Policy And Banking Issues - Areas In Which The Reserve Bank`S Expertise Is Widely Recognised.

IMF Staff papers

IMF Staff papers
Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451930828

Common issues emerging from the recent experience with IMF-supported programs in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania are analyzed. These comprise the initial price overshooting and output collapse and the financial and structural problems associated with bad loan portfolios and sluggish implementation of privatization programs. Substantial success has been achieved in the initial microstabilization and opening-up effort. But difficulties with fiscal and monetary control may be emerging as a result of social and political pressures and unclear policy signals on the micro issues involving the structural transformation of the productive and financial systems.

Functioning of the International Monetary System

Functioning of the International Monetary System
Author: Mr.Jacob A. Frenkel
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1996-04-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781557755544

The fiftieth anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference served as an opportunity to reappraise the desirability of strengthening the IMF's oversight of the functioning of the international monetary system. Whatever the design of an exchange rate system and the arrangements for the provision of international liquidity, it is widely accepted that to be effective such oversight must rest on a strong analytic foundation. These two volumes, edited by Jacob A. Frenkel and Morris Goldstein, present 30 analytic papers on the system as it functioned during 1987-91 and aim at conveying the flavor of those issues that commanded close attention in the Fund's research program.

Information Computing and Applications

Information Computing and Applications
Author: Baoxiang Liu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2012-09-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642340628

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Computing and Applications, ICICA 2012, held in Chengde, China, in September 2012. The 100 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 1089 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on internet computing and applications, multimedia networking and computing, intelligent computing and applications, computational statistics and applications, cloud and evolutionary computing, computer engineering and applications, knowledge management and applications, communication technology and applications.

Law and Inflation

Law and Inflation
Author: Keith S. Rosenn
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2015-09-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1512809020

Inflation is an economic phenomenon that has profound implications for lawyers and jurists, because the great bulk of our laws and legal doctrines have been formulated on the assumption that the value of money remains relatively stable. Inasmuch as such an assumption is no longer tenable in much of the world, it threatens the operation of our most basic legal institutions. In this book, Keith Rosenn shows how inflation affects legal documents like contracts—how it distorts credit transactions, suits for damages, and laws of taxation—and he tells how current economic practices can be adapted to reduce or eliminate the impact. He explores the possibility of using a comprehensive indexation scheme for coping with inflation. Although Rosenn recognizes the deficiencies of price indexes, he considers the practical and theoretical implications of indexation. His analysis is firmly grounded in a detailed examination of the experience of countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, and Italy in adapting their legal institutions to the fact of inflation.

An Extended Scenario and Adjustment Model for Developing Countries

An Extended Scenario and Adjustment Model for Developing Countries
Author: Ms.Sheila Bassett
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1993-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451849389

This paper discusses three important extensions to the developing country scenario and adjustment model used in the World Economic Outlook exercises. First, the model is augmented to include fiscal and monetary sectors and now explicitly captures links among government policy, investment, output and inflation. Second, the external sector is modified to allow domestic demand factors to influence imports, as well as allowing flexibility in the financing of imports. Third, the model system is extended to the group of net-creditor countries, and for the oil exporters within this group, oil exports are modeled separately. The revised model is estimated for each of the 95 developing countries and parameter estimates for each of the main equations are presented. The paper also reports the results of four simulation exercises to illustrate how the new model system may be used to quantify the effects of changes in domestic policies and in the external environment.