"Suomen Pankki - Finlands Bank."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-348) and index.

Introduction / David Mayes and Jan Toporowski -- Monetary policy and its theoretical foundations / David Laidler -- The scope and significance of open-market operations / William A. Allen -- Open market operations : their role and specification today / Ulrich Bindseil and Flemming Würtz -- Monetary policy in a changing financial environment : a case for the signalling function of central banks' operating framework / Laurent Clerc and Maud Thuaudet -- The interplay between money market development and changes in monetary policy operations in small European countries, 1980-2000 / Jens Forssbæck and Lars Oxelheim -- Open market operations in emerging markets : the Mexican experience / Noemi Levy Orlik and Jan Toporowski -- Open market operations and the federal funds rate / Daniel L. Thornton -- On the optimal frequency of the central bank's operations in the reserve market / Beata Bierut -- Money market volatility : a simulation study / Michal Kempa -- Monetary policy by signal / Sheila Dow, Matthias Klaes and Alberto Montagnoli -- The impact of the reserve bank's open market operations on Australian financial futures markets / Xinsheng Lu and Francis In -- Sustainability, inflation and public debt policy in Japan / Takero Doi, Toshihio Ihori and Kiyoshi Mitsui.