Machine generated contents note: pt. I Overview -- 1.The Global Financial Crisis: an unprecedented configuration for monetary policy -- pt. II The new mantras of the 1990s -- 2.Introduction: monetary policy prior to the NMC -- 3.A simple macroeconomic model of the NMC -- 4.Transparency: an essential feature of the NMC -- 5.Credibility in the NMC -- 6.Price stability and the influence of Wicksell on the NMC -- 7.The interest-rate setting policy: the Taylor rule and beyond -- 8.Inflation targeting and the formation of a broad consensus -- pt. III Monetary policy after the GFC -- 9.The statutory missions of the Fed and the ECB and the issue of the US dollar -- 10.Exchange rate movements and global derivatives markets -- 11.The zero bound on nominal interest rates and deflationary fears -- 12.Austerity measures versus growth: a post-crisis conundrum? -- 13.Quantitative easing: sound policy making or an admission of defeat? -- 14.Revisiting the theory of optimum currency areas --

Contents note continued: 15.Lessons from the Euro sovereign debt crisis -- 16.Post-crisis methodological considerations in central banking theory.