Monetary economics / Jagdish Handa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one. Introduction and heritage -- 1.Introduction -- 2.The analysis of money and prices: the heritage -- Part two.Money in the economy -- 3.Money in the economy: general equilibrium analysis -- Part three.The demand for money -- 4.The transactions demand for money -- 5.Portfolio selectio and the speculative demand for money -- 6.The precautionary and buffer stock demand for money -- 7.The estimating function for the demand for money -- 8.Monetary aggregation -- 9.The demand function for money: empirical findings -- Part four.Money supply and central banking -- 11.The central bank: goals, tools and guides for monetary policy -- 12.The central bank: targets, conflicts, independence and the time consistency of policies -- Part five.Money in the macroeconomy -- 13.The classical paradigm in macroeconomics: neoclassical and classical models -- 14.The Keynesian and neo-Keynesian approaches to short-run macroeconomics -- 15.Expectatioins in macroeconomics and monetary policy -- 16.Macro models, policy rules and perspectives on the neutrality of money -- 17.Walras' law and the interaction among markets -- Part six.Money in the open economy -- 18.The open economy: exchange rates and the balance of payments -- 19.The macroeconomic model for the open economy -- Part seven.The rates of interest in the economy -- 20.The macroeconomic theory of the rate of interest -- 21.The structure of interest rates -- Part eight.Overlapping genrations models of money -- 23.The OLG model: seigniorage, bonds and the neutrality of fiat money -- 24.The OLG model of money: making it more realistic -- Part nine.Money and financial institutions in growth theory -- 26.Monetary growth theory.

This textbook seeks to break new ground in developing an integrated and comprehensive overview of advanced monetary economics. It integrates the presentation of monetary theory with its heritage, empirical formulations and empirical tests.