Monetary policy and financial innovations in five industrial countries: the UK, the USA, West Germany, France and Japan

The objective of this present volume is to analyse the response to the developments and the consequences for the conduct of monetary policy in five industrial countries.

Also considered is the stability of hitherto established relationships between economic variables on which the reliability of monetary policy measures depends.

The volume further covers some of the international aspects involved and the important implications of the emerging dominant and persistent flows of long-term capital across the exchanges.