Abstract

There has been a major shift within macroeconomic policy over the past two decades or so in terms of the relative importancegiven in both policy and theoretical terms to monetary policy and to fiscal policy with the former gaining considerably inimportance, and the latter being rarely mentioned. Furthermore, the nature of monetary policy has shifted away from any attemptto control some monetary aggregate (which was prevalent in the first half of the 1980s), and instead monetary policy has focusedon the setting of interest rates as the key policy instrument.

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